Mark Walport

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

— Mark Walport

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

— Mark Walport

Distributed ledger technologies have the potential to help governments to collect taxes, deliver benefits, issue passports, record land registries, assure the supply…

— Mark Walport

Science is not finished until it is communicated.

— Mark Walport

Many families would like to avoid burdening future generations with inherited diseases such as haemophilia or severe developmental disorders. But most would…

— Mark Walport

It is absolutely key that funding is used to support the best scientists with the best ideas.

— Mark Walport

The Wellcome Trust will retain a level of financial flexibility which will enable us to react quickly to unexpected developments and new…

— Mark Walport

We are extraordinarily lucky in the U.K. to have inherited a diverse range of cities that bear the imprints of many centuries…

— Mark Walport

The U.K. is fortunate in its geographical position. We're an island. But we are living in a completely interconnected world where disruptions…

— Mark Walport

We're learning how infections are travelling around the world and, sadly, how cholera in Haiti was brought in by U.N. peacekeeping forces…

— Mark Walport

No one likes doing primate experiments, but some research can only be done on monkeys.

— Mark Walport

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

The question is, are there useful things that we can do with the results of a genome sequence that would bring benefit?…

— Mark Walport

There is a particular set of values commonly associated with being professional. Experience, expertise, trustworthiness, wisdom, and good judgement are all attributes…

— Mark Walport

We pretend that the debate about genetically modified crops is a debate about science when the reality is, actually, that the science…

— Mark Walport

In medicine, there is always a balance between risk and benefit.

— Mark Walport

When the correct tests are done, GM products are as safe as their non-GM counterparts.

— Mark Walport

One of the biggest costs in the whole scientific publishing world is borne by the academic community, which is the peer review.

— Mark Walport

It is important to recognise that, alongside the huge benefits that artificial intelligence offers, there are potential ethical issues associated with some…

— Mark Walport

New technology creates a new marketplace of words, creating totally new words and changing the meaning and application of existing ones. In…

— Mark Walport

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

— Mark Walport

People go on exploration; they're trying to find places that weren't known before. But it is an inevitable fact of research, as…

— Mark Walport

A computer, by definition, cannot be held accountable for anything because there is no mechanism to hold it to account, short of…

— Mark Walport

I am honoured to be appointed as the first chief executive of UKRI. My ambition is to make UKRI the world's leading…

— Mark Walport

Living in areas with a high population density does not need to be synonymous with overcrowding. Manhattan has an extremely dense population…

— Mark Walport