Eric Lander Quotes

We're not going to stand up and say that these 14 things make us human... But it's not trivial to be able to say, 'Here is an inventory of the most important differences, and now go at it and figure out which of these differences contain the signatures of what is distinctively human.'

- Eric Lander

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Darwin and his descendants couldn't have asked for a better example of how you make scientific predictions and how you verify them in a very rigorous way. - Eric Lander

I think it means that we'll be able to track down the actual causes of disease... What most folks don't realize we don't know the cause of asthma, of heart disease, of diabetes or hypertension. - Eric Lander

The more species we look at, the more, frankly, we find that humans are not exceptional here. - Eric Lander