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

Three billion bases of DNA sequence can be put on a single compact disc and one will be able to pull a CD out of one's pocket and say, 'Here is a hum….

I am afraid that those comments go back to the late 80's. At that time I was a skeptic - the argument based on Koch's postulates to try to distinguis….

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

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

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 th….

The best project is one that asks a novel question..

The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge….

Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties..

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought..

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….

[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 ….

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 you….

The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor..

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

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..

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

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

Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves..

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

We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens..