37 Quotes by Walter Gilbert

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.