Walter Gilbert is a famous Scientist from USA, he/she is 92 years old and still alive, born March 21, 1932.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac aries, who is known for Active, Demanding, Determined, Effective, Ambitious.
Our collection contains 18 quotes who is written / told by Walter.
"We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens"
"We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us"
"Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being"
"The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance"
"Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself"
"We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal"
"The best project is one that asks a novel question"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought"
"Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves"
"The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor"
"Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge"
"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"
"It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you"
"I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background"
