Quote by Walter Gilbert
The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought. – Walter Gilbert

Other quotes by Walter Gilbert

Its easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you dont change, your field changes around you. – Walter Gilbert

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work
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Science doesnt in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself. – Walter Gilbert

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Trust
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I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background. – Walter Gilbert

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Knowledge
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Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einsteins general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out. – Stephen Hawking

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Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive. – Leland Stanford

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I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art. – Anne Stevenson

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Though science can cause problems, it is not by ignorance that we will solve them. – Isaac Asimov

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The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker. – Helen Keller

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. – Davy Crockett

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To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God. – Meister Eckhart

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Spiritual evolution occurs as the result of removing obstacles and not actually acquiring anything new. Devotion enables surrender of the minds vanities and cherished illusions so that it progressively becomes more free and more open to the light of Truth. – David R. Hawkins

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