Thomas R. Cech Quotes

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 R. Cech

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• Obscure
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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 R. Cech
  • Study
  • Strange
  • Genes