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The Importance of Modesty in Medicine
I don't find it quite hard to be modest, I'm going to say now. But you see... It's reflected in the honours. If your research is... You know what I mean, of course. Basic research is really what we need to be doing. To get that wonderment over, which you do so well, you have to actually kind of change the tempo. That's actually what happened with the genome. The publication of the human genome was a nonsense,. Here was a very distinguished science saying, it's more important than the invention of the wheel. Well, if so, ten years later, it's a wheel that's hardly turned."
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