Walter Gilbert
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"Walter Gilbert" is an American Biochemistry/biochemist Physics/physicist, molecular biology pioneer, and Nobel laureate.

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The really fascinating thing about research is the new science, but to get to it, you have to get past that first level.

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.

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.

Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.

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

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

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

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

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