Erez Lieberman Aiden Quotes

#1. Much of contemporary science is really the length and shadow of the technology we apply.

Erez Lieberman Aiden

#2. It's so hard to figure out what's going on in biological systems. You just can't see them.

Erez Lieberman Aiden

#3. Ladies and gentlemen, a picture is not worth a thousand words. We found some pictures that are worth 500 billion words.

Erez Lieberman Aiden

#4. There was a period in my life when I was eating ramen non-stop. These days, less so. Once you have a kid, you end up eating a lot of foods with broccoli in them.

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#5. I don't view myself as a practitioner of a particular skill or method. I'm constantly looking at what's the most interesting problem that I could possibly work on. I really try to figure out what sort of scientist I need to be in order to solve the problem I'm interested in solving.

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#6. The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.

Erez Lieberman Aiden

#7. The immune system constantly creates genes on the fly that are specific to the things that show up in the body. It's amazing.

Erez Lieberman Aiden

#8. My wife and I started a program called Bears Without Borders. We raise money and hire local artisans to make stuffed animals and distribute them in their communities.

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#9. I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly in retrospect, that if I just understood math and physics and philosophy, I could figure out everything else from first principles.

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#10. One of the central mysteries of biology is why the genome is largely identical from cell to cell, even though cells do different things.

Erez Lieberman Aiden

#11. The best types of problems are those that seem harder at first than when you think about it.

Erez Lieberman Aiden