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.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

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

Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.

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

Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.

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