Walter Gilbert Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

Walter Gilbert quotes and sayings page 2 (scientist). These are the last 8 out of 18 quotes we have.

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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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