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A small number of people can make a lot of noise.
Science is not finished until it is communicated.
I've never been a proponent of something monolithic.
The best approach to risk is to identify and manage it.
Clearly, climate change is an extremely important threat to us.
In medicine, there is always a balance between risk and benefit.
Research must be central to healthcare if healthcare is to improve.
It's been an enormous privilege to be the government chief scientific adviser.
Maximum distribution of research findings is essential to maximise their impact.
No one likes doing primate experiments, but some research can only be done on monkeys.
When the correct tests are done, GM products are as safe as their non-GM counterparts.
Public trust is a vital condition for artificial intelligence to be used productively.
We need to show why the government should be funding science and how that funding delivers.
It is absolutely key that funding is used to support the best scientists with the best ideas.
Henry Wellcome certainly was a talented character with a colorful and amazing personal story.
There is usually a long interval between important scientific discoveries and impact on human health.
The most dangerous infections of humans have always been those which have emerged from other species.
I think publishing is a cost of research in the same way as buying a centrifuge is a cost of research.
Forensic techniques are enormously useful in a wide range of fields outside the criminal justice system.
One has to understand the functioning of the normal brain before studying the badly malfunctioning brain.
The European Parliament must send a clear sign that it recognises the importance of embryonic stem cell research.
Common sense, proportionality, and judgment are the skills we must seek in those we choose to regulate our lives.
I was always taught at medical school that you should never do a test unless you could do something with the result.
Scientists have argued that research is good for health, wealth, and society, and the government has trusted them on that.
We clearly have to reduce harmful energy emissions. Everyone acknowledges we simply can't switch off fossil fuels overnight.
Climate change is happening, and humans are significant contributors, and that raises some really important policy questions.
The government is right to recognise the importance of science and technology, but I think it is a mistake to ringfence funds.
We may know the chemical structure of medicinal drugs, but we frequently have a very incomplete understanding of how they work.
One of the biggest costs in the whole scientific publishing world is borne by the academic community, which is the peer review.
We owe it to ourselves and to our policy makers to have a high standard of public debate about the future of our energy supplies.
Industrialisation, mass transit, and the Internet are technological revolutions that have reshaped lives, nations, and the planet.
Science, engineering, and technology discovers and invents new ways of doing things - but it doesn't dictate how we should do them.
It was and has been one of the major interventions in public health, and it's absolutely vital that people vaccinate their children.
We all want our drugs to be safe - and so an essential part of the pathway to the development of a new drug is approval by a regulator.
The Wellcome Trust will retain a level of financial flexibility which will enable us to react quickly to unexpected developments and new ideas.
Medical engineering is one of the areas in which the traditional 'silo' structures of university disciplines have not encouraged collaboration.
Forensic science offers great potential, as it draws on almost every discipline and, in doing so, creates widespread opportunity for innovation.
We are extraordinarily lucky in the U.K. to have inherited a diverse range of cities that bear the imprints of many centuries of human habitation.
Science, engineering, and technology have transformed the infrastructure of the modern world and have a vital role to play at the heart of policy making.
As medical data has such power to deliver better understanding of disease and better patient outcomes, it is important we find the best way of sharing it.
We're learning how infections are travelling around the world and, sadly, how cholera in Haiti was brought in by U.N. peacekeeping forces from south Asia.
Wellcome Collection will be an exciting place in which to explore themes of human well-being, starting with the powerful collections of Sir Henry Wellcome.
When you check into a hotel, they don't need to know your name and address; they just need to know that the bill will be paid. People should ask questions.
It is important to recognise that, alongside the huge benefits that artificial intelligence offers, there are potential ethical issues associated with some uses.
I am honoured to be appointed as the first chief executive of UKRI. My ambition is to make UKRI the world's leading research and innovation public funding agency.
The principle of treating cancer is to kill the abnormally dividing cells. Many drugs achieve this in a relatively unselective way, killing any cell that is dividing.
It is a fiction to imagine that the haphazard paper chits of old are more private than the modern digital alternative. Paper records have always presented a security risk.
Like Israel, the U.K. is a democracy, and like Israel, we would never want to muzzle political voices, whatever their opinions - and that is especially true for universities.
It seems paradoxical that, as medical scientists make huge advances in discovering the mechanisms of common diseases, fewer and fewer innovative drugs are reaching the market.
If you look at my track record as government chief scientific advisor, I've always recognized that all of the sciences are important to all of research, and we need a balance.