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

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

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

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

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..

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….

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

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..

[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 ….

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

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

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

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….

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

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….

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

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

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

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

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

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….