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 GilbertI have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.
Walter GilbertWe haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
Walter Gilbert