Walter Gilbert

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

— Walter Gilbert

#biological #embedded #organisms #related #us

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

— Walter Gilbert

#being #biology #chain #every #gene

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

#asking #discover #finding #formulate #know

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

#about #develop #early #even #exercise

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

— Walter Gilbert

#hand #knowledge #outcome #piece #wants

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

— Walter Gilbert

#get #i #knowledge #people #power

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

#common #differ #everyone #genes #know

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

#around #change #changes #easier #field

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

— Walter Gilbert

#completely #demonstrate #depend #depends #science

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

— Walter Gilbert

#best #novel #project #question