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

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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. "

" Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view. "

" 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. "

" We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens. "

" Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties. "

" The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought. "

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

" The best project is one that asks a novel question. "

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

" We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal. "

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" Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves. "

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