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Walter Gilbert
American
Scientist
Born:
Mar 21
,
1932
About
Genes
People
Science
Will
You
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The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
Walter Gilbert
Science
Independence
Thought
Virtues
Skepticism
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
Work
You
Change
People
Field
Think
Changes
Easier
Around
Than
Your
Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.
Walter Gilbert
Great
Will
Animals
Every
Biology
Other
Relate
Bacteria
Gene
Genes
Human
Being
Chain
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
You
Mind
Own
Way
Finding
Something
Something New
New
Know
Learn
Answer
Discover
Question
Very
Often
Whether
Formulate
Asking
Your
Novel
Stretch
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.
Walter Gilbert
Science
Community
Valid
Way
Say
Weakness
Only
Tend
Tends
Doing
Scientists
Move
Establishment
Skeptical
Modes
View
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
Good
You
Learning
Writing
Relevant
Ability
About
Write
Develop
Exercise
Useful
Even
Early
We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
Walter Gilbert
Human Being
Able
Determine
Genes
Terms
Another
Makes
Been
Mammal
Human
Being
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