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| Walter Gilbert
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. 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. Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature. Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge. I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background. In 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. In a sense, the human genome program has the same theme. It is the ultimate answer. Nothing in the individual is more causal, more basic. The best project is one that asks a novel question. The idea that one can create a single subspecies that breeds true and is superhealthy and so on is an illusion. Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties. We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us. We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal. |
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