Science doesnt in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself. – Walter Gilbert
I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background. – Walter Gilbert
Early on, its good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what youre writing about is not that relevant. – Walter Gilbert
The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought. – Walter Gilbert
Whoever reads only to transcribe or quote shining remarks without entering into the genius and spirit of the author, will be apt to be misled out of a regular way of thinking, and the product of all this will be found to be a manifest incoherent piece of patchwork. – Attributed to Swift in A Dictionary of Thoughts, Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Q