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

We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.

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.

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

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.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.