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
It's been an enormous privilege to be the government chief scientific adviser. — 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 need to show why the government should be funding science and how that funding delivers. — 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
My job is to advise politicians, elected officials, and government ministries of the best way to deal with important issues, both localized,… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
When governments work well, they safeguard citizens' health, well-being, resilience and security, and they increase prosperity. To do this, they must respond… — 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
Distributed ledger technologies have the potential to help governments to collect taxes, deliver benefits, issue passports, record land registries, assure the supply… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 so in… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
The European Parliament must send a clear sign that it recognises the importance of embryonic stem cell research. — 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
One has to understand the functioning of the normal brain before studying the badly malfunctioning brain. — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Public trust is a vital condition for artificial intelligence to be used productively. — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
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 Image
