Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.

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

The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.

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 best project is one that asks a novel question.

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.

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