The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

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.

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.

Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.

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

Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

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.

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

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

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

The best project is one that asks a novel question.

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

The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

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

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

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria to this great chain of being.

Biology will tell you a lot of things but there are many that it can not explain and you need to look at physics instead.

The humans place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution the product of our biological inheritance.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

Both of us are known for probably at times regrettable streak of independence.

Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence.

To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.

Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.

I think it's a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that's a march to folly.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.

The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.

I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington.

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.

Terrorism is a big danger to Pakistan's independence. We will fight this danger for the sake of independence of Pakistan and will defeat it at all levels.

Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Independence of Russia.

The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.

I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence.

I was born with a fierce need for independence.

One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.