Adviser Quote by Mark Walport Download Open image “It's been an enormous privilege to be the government chief scientific adviser.” — Mark Walport ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adviser Chief Government Politics Privilege Science
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 Copy Share Image
I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions. — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
The president [of American research institute] can act as the CEO and make a firm decision about the long-term development of the institution, but… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The new oligarchy must increasingly rely on the advice of scientists until in the end the politicians become merely the scientists’ puppets.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, there's a lot of people in high places who understand the science but don't like where the policy leads them: too much government… — David Titley Copy Share Image
After forty years in the lab, I was asked in 1991 to become president of The Rockefeller University. Unlike a working scientist, being president… — Torsten Wiesel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every citizen, scientists included, has some obligation to be involved in public affairs and politics. — Rush D. Holt, Jr 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
In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium. — Loretta Young Copy Share Image
President Bush deliberately did not apologize for things and that’s because advisers around him, including those there, felt that the press corps would jump… — David Gregory Copy Share Image
The best adviser is God, the good listener is heart but the mind of person always confused. — Meicee Copy Share Image
No adviser to a president is going to get his way all of the time, but at a minimum, that adviser should be able… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
Men tend to leave their financial adviser at a single-digit-percent rate in any given year. And women leave their husband and their joint financial… — Sallie Krawcheck Copy Share Image
Steve Bannon, too, needs to be a unifier, doesn't he, as the senior adviser. — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
Asking for advice is an act of humility… The act alone says, "I need you." The decision maker and the adviser are pushed into… — Dennis Bakke Copy Share Image
It is the lawyers who run our civilization for us -- our governments, our business, our private lives. Most legislators are lawyers; they make… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
The truth then is, that the Russian Comintern is still confessedly engaged in endeavoring to foment war in order to facilitate revolution, and that… — Denis Fahey Copy Share Image
French troops arrived in Afghanistan last week, and not a minute too soon. The French are acting as advisers to the Taliban, to teach… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Republicans want to punish work and reward wealth; hence the high payroll tax and the low dividend tax. Said one Bush economic adviser, if… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
As for Vietnam, what matters is that Kennedy successfully resisted pressure to send anything more than military advisers, a stance that was a likely… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image