Thomas Cech Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.”
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“If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about.”
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“I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.”
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“The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.”
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“There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it.”
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“Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.”
-- Thomas Cech
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