Thomas Cech Quotes

• 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

  Biology, Breakthrough, Phenomenon

  "Funding above and beyond scientific research". Interview with Holger Breithaupt, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. September 15, 2001.

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• I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.

  Thomas Cech

  Thinking, Leader, Research

  "Funding above and beyond scientific research". Interview with Holger Breithaupt, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. September 15, 2001.

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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.

  Thomas Cech

  Thinking, Environmental, Attention

  "Funding above and beyond scientific research". Interview with Holger Breithaupt, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. September 15, 2001.

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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 say I want to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about.

  Thomas Cech

  Want, Strange, Study

  "Funding above and beyond scientific research". EMBO reports Interview, embor.embopress.org. September 2001.

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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.

  Thomas Cech

  Teacher, School, Thinking

  "Funding above and beyond scientific research". EMBO reports interview, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. September 15, 2001.

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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.

  Thomas Cech

  Views, People, Excitement

  "Funding above and beyond scientific research". EMBO reports interview, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. September 15, 2001.

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