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Walter Gilbert [1932-0] American

Rank: 102
Scientist, Physicist

Walter Gilbert is an American biochemist, physicist, molecular biology pioneer, and Nobel laureate.

Science, Independence, Nature, Trust, Work

Quote	Tags	Rank
We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.	Nature	101
Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.	Science	102
The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.	Independence, Science	103
The best project is one that asks a novel question.		104
Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.		105
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.		106
The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.		107
The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.		108
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.		109
Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.		110
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.		111
It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.	Work	112
Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.	Trust	113
We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.		114
We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.		115
I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.		116
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.		117
Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.		118

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