Walter Gilbert Quotes

When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it.

Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don't really know what the final result will be before you have it.

But I think you can strip the emotion and the subjectivity away while you focus on doing the science - and that's really important.

I am a writer and editor with a passion for true storytelling. To me, science matters, research matters and knowledge matters, whatever the field.

Studies are studies. You get all kinds of studies.

The aim of natural science is not simply to accept the statements of others, but to investigate the causes that are at work in nature.

It’s not very profitable to sit and think nowadays. So many problems, and they seem all to have such twists to them – nothing is straightforward.

Academic freedom carries with it the right to heresy as well as the right to restate and defend the traditional views.

Science is a series of judgments, revised without ceasing.

Just as houses are made of stone, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house, and a collection of facts is not necessarily science

A good scientist goes beyond the data he has. He applies new concepts he hadn't applied before….On some things, I was not right, but ... you can propose these ideas and stimulate thinking

Scientist

I've always had my own opinions and have always been somebody who thinks outside the box.

I'm first and foremost a scientist.

I'm a research queen.

I can't ever remember being struck by lightning when making a big decision. It's always about taking in more and more data points and making tack adjustments as you figure it out. I call customers, suppliers, industry analysts and try to get as much information as possible.

I really like research.

It's important to have people who are absolutely willing to say you're wrong or who have a totally different perspective than you do on everything. Fresh ideas are hard to come by, and good ones are even harder.

There is something about the mindset of a scientist that is different - an awareness of uncertainty, modeling, proof.

If you don't have material, you don't have an experiment.

The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.

Science is a wonderful way of getting out what's real.

Research is creation of knowledge which leads to new and efficient solutions for the society. Shiv Nadar University, therefore, believes in being at the forefront of research. To create new knowledge, one needs to solve open-ended problems, which basically make one think on one's own.