David Baltimore Quotes (14 Quotes)


    you do have a certain responsibility to be a spokesman for the scientific community and to represent people.

    I don't think people took it seriously because it was such an obviously unattainable goal. I was surprised, and I know lots of other people were surprised, that he chose a time so near, when we see it as a very difficult problem.

    When we talk about stem cells, we are actually talking about a complicated series of things, including adult stem cells which are largely cells devoted to replacing individual tissues like blood elements or liver or even the brain.

    What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago.

    The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.


    There are lots of other issues in policy including the stem cell issue.

    Baltimore said his intention to retire as president of the Pasadena-based university was not prompted by any health problem, budget deficit or management disagreements, but rather a sense that he had accomplished his goals as an administrator. Caltech is a wonderful place, the best place to do science I have ever seen, ... I will have done what I can do as president, and it is time for somebody else to be thinking about it. I have a fairly extensive life in science and in business that I will pursue.

    I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.

    DOE is the sick bird in this lot, the Department of Energy, largely because the Republicans do not like the Department of Energy.

    There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.

    There is an increasing belief that we need to understand the structure better,

    When are we going to say cancer is cured? I'm not sure when that will happen, if that will happen because cancer is a very slippery disease and it involves a vast number of cells in the body and those cells are continually mutating.

    I think they are looking for publicity and they are looking for a name for themselves.

    In the last few years these efforts have been remarkably successful. It has been possible to identify both genes and the proteins involved in cancer induction.


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