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.
More Quotes from David Baltimore:
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.David Baltimore
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.
David Baltimore
There are lots of other issues in policy including the stem cell issue.
David Baltimore
There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.
David Baltimore
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.
David Baltimore
There is an increasing belief that we need to understand the structure better,
David Baltimore
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Keywords: contextsThere is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Aeschylus
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.
Esther Dyson