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.Walter Gilbert
Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
Walter Gilbert
We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
Walter Gilbert
Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.
Walter Gilbert
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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This last discovery illuminated the mechanism of protein synthesis the protein chain is transferred in turn from one amino-acid-bearing transfer RNA to another as it grows, their order dictated by messenger RNA and ultimately by the genetic code on the DN
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