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Lenny Wilkens
Basketball Hall of Fame
Players have to understand what their roles are, how they fit in, you know. I think that you have to learn to communicate with people, and I think that respect is a two-way street. If you want it, you've got to give it. I felt like if you show someone how to have success, they want more of it. You know? So find ways to help people. I felt if you put yourself on a pedestal as a coach and if you're not reachable, touchable, how can you communicate then? So these are things I believed in, and so I tried to implement those things with the guys. I tried to be consistent, so they always knew where I was coming from and what I stood for. I wasn't going to say one thing and do another thing. And so, I felt that these principles really worked, and they bought into them, and we became a very good team.
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Lenny Wilkens
Basketball Hall of Fame
There was a book that came out and I thought was a terrible, terrible book. Winning Through Intimidation or something like that. Intimidation doesn't last very long. All right? So what you have to do is build confidence in people. Show people how to have success and then you can push their expectations up. At least, like you say, I let my players know I believe that they could achieve this and I set goals for them. Now, I set individual goals. I set team goals. I set intermediate goals, so that as soon as we achieve this one we can move to the next one. And so, yes, I have high expectations of them. I let them know that I believe that they can succeed, and I'm going to be there to help them.
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Lenny Wilkens
Basketball Hall of Fame
We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams. We all should have our dreams and dream them. Okay. But also see what surrounds it if you love professional sports, if you love the professional athlete. Now what are the things that surround him or her? There's the coach. There's the trainer. There's the team doctor, whether it's an orthopedic or internist or dentist or ophthalmologist. There's the advertising department, the marketing department, media relations department. There's a promotions department. There's ownership, general manager. So let your scope be here, okay. And if I'm shooting to be the professional athlete, and I learn all about professional sports, and I don't make it -- Boom! I'm over here. I'm still associated with the sport. So I tell young people, "Don't narrow your dream to here. Let your dream grow, and just broaden it."
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Ian Wilmut
Pioneer of Cloning
In a conversation in a bar one evening we were told that somebody working in that lab that I mentioned in Texas had achieved a step forward with nuclear transfer and was getting development from cells taken from embryo. And, it sparked across to the fact that in mouse there are ways of culturing those cells in the lab, they're called embryonic stem cells. A specialist population of cells which can give rise to every other tissue. Now, what the person in Texas had done was to take cells from just a day or two earlier than that, so there's sort of a short gap. But, the point that excited me was that if we could bridge that gap, then we would be able to have ways of being able to make genetic changes in animals and make lots of copies of animals.
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Ian Wilmut
Pioneer of Cloning
Once you've shown that you can do this with an egg by taking a nucleus and an egg, you can ask, what are the factors? Can we find ways of putting those factors into the cell without doing a nuclear transfer? If you can do that, then you can find a way of -- let's say you have a patient with Parkinson's disease, taking a cell from that patient, treating it in the sort of ways that we're beginning to dream about now and it will go back to a very early stage of development. Now, the value of that in principle is that if you got a cell back at that stage you can make it differentiating to everything else, including the nervous cells which are damaged in Parkinson's disease. So I'm quite sure that one day somebody will be describing to you how to do this and to provide cells to treat Parkinson's disease, diabetes, perhaps to reconstitute the immune system in somebody who's had leukemia. To reconstruct the immune system with AIDS, all sorts of different treatments like that.
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E.O. Wilson
Father of Sociobiology
Deciding when you reach the point of diminishing return in one direction and you really ought to be picking up your gear and moving over to another sector on the advancing front. So I have, in a sense, been an opportunist. The one common thread in my scientific career has been the devotion to one group of organisms, the ants, which I set out to learn thoroughly for the pleasure of it, but also developed for the richness of new material and opportunities for discovery that they could provide. Given that as a kind of anchor, and given evolution as a grand organizing theme for developing research programs, I began with the relatively simple program, actually in my teens, of studying ants and their classification and a little bit of the natural history.
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E.O. Wilson
Father of Sociobiology
I am by nature a lateral thinker and an imperialist. I'll admit it. That is to say that if something is working at one level or one area, I like to say, "Well, maybe it will work at a broader area or across a larger span of time or biological organization." So (I was) encouraged by that success, it's true, and it was very successful. It really had an impact on ecology, and also on the study of biodiversity, and ultimately on conservation biology, because obviously, the processes of immigration of new species and extinction of resident species is fundamental in understanding the preservation of biodiversity in reserves and in the world generally.
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E.O. Wilson
Father of Sociobiology
Edward O. Wilson: Interesting question. I would have written it differently. I think I would have written a much longer chapter, and of course, I would have been ignorant of so many things we know today in terms of how biology and culture might interact. I didn't start studying that until about four years afterwards anyway, myself, but I certainly would have taken a very cautious tone, and I would have put in a lot about the political dangers on both sides. I would have tried to bulletproof myself from the left, and at the same time, I would have made concessions to the left about the high risk of misuse of any kind of biology on the right. I think that would have defused a lot of it, but I think there would have been a strong controversy. There wouldn't have been the one coming from my colleagues here quite as strong anyway, because that would have disarmed them.
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E.O. Wilson
Father of Sociobiology
You know, I was a loner, a solitaire, so this is the perfect sport for that. Those were very romantic days in which no one knew what the human limit was. No one knew what individual limits were. That still was the case when I became a jogger -- before the big running craze in the '60s -- and had one more go at it, trying for master's running, and discovered that my limitation that I found in myself at the college age was still there, adjusted for age, almost mathematically predictable what it would be when I would reach my maximum ability, which I think I did. So I did not become Roger Bannister. He beat me to it, and if I had been given the opportunity for a thousand years, I never would have made it.
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