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

The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints.

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

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.

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.

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

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