Walter Gilbert Quotes

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

  Walter Gilbert

  Research, Basic Research

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• The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

  Walter Gilbert

  Independence, Virtue, Skepticism

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• 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, Work, Thinking

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• Three billion bases of DNA sequence can be put on a single compact disc and one will be able to pull a CD out of one's pocket and say, 'Here is a human being; it's me!'

  Walter Gilbert

  Humanos, Seres Humanos

  "Long Genome, Lively Book" by David Dobbs, www.wired.com. July 17, 2012.

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

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  Animal, Bacteria, Biology

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• The best project is one that asks a novel question.

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  Projects, Novel, Asks

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• The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints.

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  Community, Alternatives, Viewpoints

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• 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.

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  Mind, Asking, Answers

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

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  World, Embedded, Related

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• 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.

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  Moving, Views, Community

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• 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, Depends

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• 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, Exercise, Ability

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

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  Vigor, Variation, Responsible

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

  Walter Gilbert

  Trying, Today, Study

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• Biology will tell you a lot of things, but there are many that it can not explain and you need to look at physics instead.

  Walter Gilbert

  Needs, Looks, Physics

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• El lugar del ser humano en el universo se fijará en el esquema de la evolución, producto de nuestra herencia biológica.

  Walter Gilbert

  Inheritance, Evolution, Schemes

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• Me temo que esos comentarios se remontan a finales de los años 80. En aquella época yo era un escéptico: el argumento se basaba en los postulados de Koch para intentar distinguir entre causa y asociación. Hoy consideraría el éxito de los muchos agentes antivirales que disminuyen los títulos del virus (esperable) y también resuelven el fallo del sistema inmunitario (sólo esperable si el virus es la causa del fallo) como una prueba razonable del argumento de la causalidad .

  Walter Gilbert

  Trying, Viruses, Agents

  Personal email message, momentofscience.blogspot.ru. July 11, 2006.

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• Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.

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  Errors, Literature, Common

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• 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.

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  Years, People, Lists

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• Aún no hemos podido determinar en términos de genes qué hace que un ser humano sea humano y no otro mamífero.

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  Mammals, Able, Genes

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• [Duesberg] is absolutely correct in saying that no one has proven that AIDS is caused by the AIDS virus. And he is absolutely correct that the virus cultured in the laboratory may not be the cause of AIDS.

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  Viruses, May, Causes

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• Sabemos que genes específicos se activan en células específicas, pero no sabemos hasta qué punto esto ocurre.

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  Cells, Genes, Happens

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

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  Religious, People, Virtue

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

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  Hands, Pieces, Want

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