Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.
Walter GilbertIn 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.
Walter GilbertWe know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.
Walter GilbertBy 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