Scientist Quotes

We have sensible fans and sensible policies.

We had to support our player and genuinely felt, like Rio has said, that it was an honest mistake. It is important to know that Manchester United never said, and Rio Ferdinand never said, that a mistake hadn't been made.

We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don't regret he played for that period.

We don't have major limits in the transfer market.

We discussed buying a defender. The view was the priority at that time given the way we were playing was that we needed support up front and that is why we bought Louis Saha.

There are a lot of lessons to be learned. We can all learn lessons.

The stadium expansion is currently at the feasibility stage and has to go through that.

The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue.

The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The manager assesses whose coming through the academy system. His job is to look at what is happening in European and world football.

The FA Cup is important to everyone at the club. We have a great record in it and we want to win a trophy.

Previously people were treated anonymously particular on a drugs situation which is obviously highly emotive. They have been treated anonymously even after the verdict had been reached.

Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.

Namely the manager will assess what he believes a player is worth and he will discuss that with the board and then we will go after that target. If we can achieve it at that target, great, but if we can't we will have to move on to the next player.

Arsenal are a great team. But we lifted the trophy eight times in 11 years.

All I can do is assess the value from Manchester United perspective. Whatever Chelsea do, they may have a different criteria, and different financial assets.

A lot of them want to come and play for Manchester United. They want to play because Alex has a record of giving youth a chance and we have the history and heritage of Manchester United.

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

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

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

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

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.

The best project is one that asks a novel question.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.