Key Quotes by Mark Walport

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

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

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

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

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

The European Parliament must send a clear sign that it recognises the importance of embryonic stem cell research.

— Mark Walport

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

— Mark Walport

One has to understand the functioning of the normal brain before studying the badly malfunctioning brain.

— Mark Walport

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

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

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

— Mark Walport

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