If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to say I want to study gene organisation…

- Thomas Cech

The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are qui…

- Thomas Cech

I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.

- Thomas Cech

There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns woul…

- Thomas Cech

We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high …

- Thomas Cech

Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore t…

- Thomas Cech