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"Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties."
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"The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it."

"I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic."

"Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that I had to make a serious study- that my tastes were far more advanced than my abilities."

"Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study."

"You need to study, to examine deeply the field you are interested in."

"Knowledge is enthusiasm to learn."

"The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method."
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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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


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