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Walter Gilbert (Chemist)

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

— Walter Gilbert science

The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.

— Walter Gilbert action

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

— Walter Gilbert world

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

— Walter Gilbert change

Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.

— Walter Gilbert knowledge

Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.

— Walter Gilbert learn

Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

— Walter Gilbert man

The best project is one that asks a novel question.

— Walter Gilbert novel

The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

— Walter Gilbert man

Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.

— Walter Gilbert writing

We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.

— Walter Gilbert man

In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.

— Walter Gilbert people

Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.

— Walter Gilbert belief

We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.

— Walter Gilbert

By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

— Walter Gilbert mind

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

— Walter Gilbert knowledge

Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.

— Walter Gilbert day

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.

— Walter Gilbert science

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