I’m looking for all the things that are beneficial in the human genome. Everything that I do is based on a very simple principle: things that are beneficial will spread through populations very quickly. Pardis Sabeti Read Quote
You get these moments of thrill. There you are, at 3:00 in the morning, and you know something about how we evolved that nobody else in the world knows. It’s a thrill of discovery. You make this breakthrough, and you find something. It’s this wonderful, wonderful scavenger hunt when you got to the end. It’s just so great to be a scientist. Pardis Sabeti Read Quote
I like – I love calculus. I love linear algebra, probability and statistics, that kind of stuff. I just really like that. Pardis Sabeti Read Quote
Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more. Pardis Sabeti Read Quote
It’s just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are – who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process. Pardis Sabeti Read Quote
I don’t really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it’s not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it’s difficult to portray. Pardis Sabeti Read Quote
The creative scientific process is – It’s kind of – It’s a windy road that has a trajectory, but it’s a slow trajectory. Pardis Sabeti Read Quote
There is – I will just say that there was a disastrous day where I discovered really what radioactivity is and that just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean that it’s not everywhere, so – Yeah. I was a slow learner for sure. Pardis Sabeti Read Quote
The Ebola epidemic was the most frightening outbreak I have witnessed in my lifetime, and I believe it was necessary to react globally as strongly as we did. Pardis Sabeti Read Quote
