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Walter Gilbert

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

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

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The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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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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