WISDOM · VERIFIED · EN

David Baltimore Quote

“What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago.”

— David Baltimore

Source: Quotables — alvations/Quotables (CC0 1.0 dataset)

Attribution status: verified · Publication status: cleared

Explore more quotes attributed to David Baltimore or browse wisdom quotes.

If you believe this quote is incorrectly attributed or should be removed, see Copyright and quote corrections.

There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.

— David Baltimore

Education

Read quote

I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.

— David Baltimore

Life

Read quote

I think they are looking for publicity and they are looking for a name for themselves.

— David Baltimore

Wisdom

Read quote

When are we going to say cancer is cured? I'm not sure when that will happen, if that will happen because cancer is a very slippery disease and it involves a vast number of cells in the body and those cells are continually mutating.

— David Baltimore

Wisdom

Read quote

The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.

— David Baltimore

Wisdom

Read quote

When we talk about stem cells, we are actually talking about a complicated series of things, including adult stem cells which are largely cells devoted to replacing individual tissues like blood elements or liver or even the brain.

— David Baltimore

Wisdom

Read quote