Walter Gilbert
Walter Gilbert
Walter Gilbertis an American biochemist, physicist, molecular biology pioneer, and Nobel laureate...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth21 March 1932
CountryUnited States of America
Walter Gilbert quotes about
genome human individual program ultimate
In a sense, the human genome program has the same theme. It is the ultimate answer. Nothing in the individual is more causal, more basic.
research basic-research
Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.
work thinking people
It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.
writing exercise relevant
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.
world embedded related
We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.
trying today study
Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
able mammals genes
We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
cells genes knows
We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.
mind answers way
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.
years people lists
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.
moving views community
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.
looks needs physics
Biology will tell you a lot of things, but there are many that it can not explain and you need to look at physics instead.
may causes viruses
[Duesberg] is absolutely correct in saying that no one has proven that AIDS is caused by the AIDS virus. And he is absolutely correct that the virus cultured in the laboratory may not be the cause of AIDS.
variation vigor responsible
The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.