It's been an enormous privilege to be the government chief scientific adviser. — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
We need to show why the government should be funding science and how that funding delivers. — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
It is absolutely key that funding is used to support the best scientists with the best ideas. — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
Maximum distribution of research findings is essential to maximise their impact. — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
The government is right to recognise the importance of science and technology, but I think it is a mistake to ringfence funds. — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
Science can tell us what can be done in principle, but it is then a matter for public debate as to what… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
Forensic science offers great potential, as it draws on almost every discipline and, in doing so, creates widespread opportunity for innovation. — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
One of the biggest costs in the whole scientific publishing world is borne by the academic community, which is the peer review. — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
Scientists have argued that research is good for health, wealth, and society, and the government has trusted them on that. — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
We pretend that the debate about genetically modified crops is a debate about science when the reality is, actually, that the science… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
If you look at my track record as government chief scientific advisor, I've always recognized that all of the sciences are important… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
If you look at U.K. science, we collaborate with people across the whole world, and it's extremely important we continue to do… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
Sharing data allows us to research, communicate, consume media, buy and sell, play games, and more. In return, businesses develop products, scientists… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
An important task for government is to think about the future as well as to learn from the past, and the Foresight… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
Wellcome Trust focuses on supporting outstanding researchers, accelerating the application of research, and exploring medicine in historical and cultural contexts. We believe… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
I look forward to working closely with the Research Councils, Innovate UK, and Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), as we… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
People have extreme beliefs about whether it is right for humans to tamper with embryos in any way at all. Sometimes the… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
The involvement of clinicians, researchers, and, most importantly, the thousands of people who have donated DNA samples will help us to correlate… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
Science, engineering, and technology have transformed the infrastructure of the modern world and have a vital role to play at the heart… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
There is usually a long interval between important scientific discoveries and impact on human health. — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
David Sainsbury has been good for science and good for innovation in the U.K. He has been an outstanding science minister and… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
Science, engineering, and technology discovers and invents new ways of doing things - but it doesn't dictate how we should do them. — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
It seems paradoxical that, as medical scientists make huge advances in discovering the mechanisms of common diseases, fewer and fewer innovative drugs… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
Wellcome Trust focuses on supporting outstanding researchers, accelerating the application of research, and exploring medicine in historical and cultural contexts. We believe passionately that… — Mark Walport Copy Share
In the case of health information, I spent twenty-five years practicing medicine, and I was all too familiar with the fact that information wasn't… — Mark Walport Copy Share
We owe it to ourselves and to our policy makers to have a high standard of public debate about the future of our energy… — Mark Walport Copy Share
Distributed ledgers are inherently harder to attack because instead of a single database, there are multiple shared copies of the same database, so a… — Mark Walport Copy Share
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… — Mark Walport Copy Share
The European Parliament must send a clear sign that it recognises the importance of embryonic stem cell research. — Mark Walport Copy Share
The government is right to recognise the importance of science and technology, but I think it is a mistake to ringfence funds. — Mark Walport Copy Share
One has to understand the functioning of the normal brain before studying the badly malfunctioning brain. — Mark Walport Copy Share
When governments work well, they safeguard citizens' health, well-being, resilience and security, and they increase prosperity. To do this, they must respond effectively to… — Mark Walport Copy Share
Science, engineering, and technology have transformed the infrastructure of the modern world and have a vital role to play at the heart of policy… — Mark Walport Copy Share
Public trust is a vital condition for artificial intelligence to be used productively. — Mark Walport Copy Share
Of course methane is a fossil fuel, but as long as it is burned efficiently and fugitive emissions of methane gas are minimised, it… — Mark Walport Copy Share
We take it for granted that because our shelves and supermarkets are heaving with food that there are no problems with food security. But… — Mark Walport Copy Share
Forensic science offers great potential, as it draws on almost every discipline and, in doing so, creates widespread opportunity for innovation. — Mark Walport Copy Share
Cities are central to the shaping and delivery of national policy objectives, and in return, they are the places where social, environmental, and economic… — Mark Walport Copy Share
