Creating Quote by Harold E. Varmus

All basic scientists who look to the NCI for funding should know that I will tolerate no retreat on the study of model systems…

— Harold E. Varmus

Scientists cloister themselves away from the rest of society, happy just to receive their next grant. They lose their connection to a purpose.

— Neil Turok

Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're just out…

— David Suzuki

Summit meetings tend to be like panda matings. The expectations are always high, and the results usually disappointing.

— Robert Orben

The problem for large scientific projects is to do something that is being done for the first time, balanced against cost, schedule. and promises…

— Barry Barish

Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved…

— Aubrey de Grey

Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan…

— Anatoly Chubais

As long as a handful of U.S. scientists, most receiving funds from the fossil fuel industry, get equal time with hundreds of the world's…

— Joseph J. Romm

If you look at my track record as government chief scientific advisor, I've always recognized that all of the sciences are important to all…

— Mark Walport

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

— Mark Walport

My own view is that no major advance was ever found as a result of a committee's recommendation... We should be honest in telling…

— David Mumford

Scientific discovery requires sustained funding for decades, and politicians can destroy it in a single budget cycle.

— Bill Foster