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

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

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The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: March 21st, 1932

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