Author: Mark Walport

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The government is right to recognise the importance of science and technology, but I think it is a mistake to ringfence funds.

The government is right to recognise the importance of science and technology, but I think it is a mistake to ringfence funds.

- Mark Walport

There is usually a long interval between important scientific discoveries and impact on human health.

There is usually a long interval between important scientific discoveries and impact on human health.

- Mark Walport

We may know the chemical structure of medicinal drugs, but we frequently have a very incomplete understanding of how they work.

We may know the chemical structure of medicinal drugs, but we frequently have a very incomplete understanding of how they work.

- Mark Walport

Public trust is a vital condition for artificial intelligence to be used productively.

Public trust is a vital condition for artificial intelligence to be used productively.

- Mark Walport

The best approach to risk is to identify and manage it.

The best approach to risk is to identify and manage it.

- Mark Walport

Forensic science offers great potential, as it draws on almost every discipline and, in doing so, creates widespread opportunity for innovation.

Forensic science offers great potential, as it draws on almost every discipline and, in doing so, creates widespread opportunity for innovation.

- Mark Walport

Science, engineering, and technology discovers and invents new ways of doing things - but it doesn't dictate how we should do them.

Science, engineering, and technology discovers and invents new ways of doing things - but it doesn't dictate how we should do them.

- Mark Walport

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.

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.

- Mark Walport

If you look at U.K. science, we collaborate with people across the whole world, and it's extremely important we continue to do so in the future.

If you look at U.K. science, we collaborate with people across the whole world, and it's extremely important we continue to do so in the future.

- Mark Walport

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