Quotes by Mark Walport - Page 2

As a medical student in the 1970s, I was taught that the foundations of diagnosis and treatment were to take a detailed history and to perform a comprehensive clinical examination.
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Diagnosis
Examination
Treatment
Clinical
Detailed
Foundations
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We pretend that the debate about genetically modified crops is a debate about science when the reality is, actually, that the science is very clear. It is really a debate about values.
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Science
Clear
Crops
Debate
Reality
Actually
Pretend
Genetically
Modified
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Cities are central to the shaping and delivery of national policy objectives, and in return, they are the places where social, environmental, and economic policies play out in practice.
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Environmental
Cities
Delivery
Economic
Objectives
Practice
Return
Central
Economic Policies
National
National Policy
Places
Policies
Shaping
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David Sainsbury has been good for science and good for innovation in the U.K. He has been an outstanding science minister and shown extraordinary passion and commitment to his portfolio.
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Commitment
Extraordinary
Innovation
Outstanding
Passion
David
Portfolio
Minister
Shown
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Science can tell us what can be done in principle, but it is then a matter for public debate as to what should be done. And ultimately, it is a role for politicians to decide the answers.
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Debate
Principle
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The U.K. is fortunate in its geographical position. We're an island. But we are living in a completely interconnected world where disruptions in countries far away will have major impacts.
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Disruption
Far Away
Interconnected
World Will Living
Geographical
Island
Impacts
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My job is to advise politicians, elected officials, and government ministries of the best way to deal with important issues, both localized, national, and the grand challenges facing humanity.
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Advise
Best Way
Elected Officials
Important Issues
Officials
Facing
Grand
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Living in areas with a high population density does not need to be synonymous with overcrowding. Manhattan has an extremely dense population and is considered by many to be a highly desirable place to live.
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Dense
Desirable
Manhattan
Overcrowding
Population
Synonymous
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An important task for government is to think about the future as well as to learn from the past, and the Foresight Programme, run by the Government Office for Science, helps in the development of this thinking.
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Development
Foresight
Office
Helps
Programme
Task
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Banks and credit agencies learn continuously about the purchases we make. This is convenient and diminishes the risk of theft. It also means that banks can know more about our lifestyle than our close relatives.
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Lifestyle
Theft
Agencies
Banks
Continuously
Diminishes
Purchases
Relatives
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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 the new, the unexpected, and the game-changing.
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Increase
Prosperity
Resilience
Unexpected
Well Being
Respond
Effectively
Governments
Safeguard
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New technology creates a new marketplace of words, creating totally new words and changing the meaning and application of existing ones. In doing so, it has a potent opportunity to create new misconceptions and confusion.
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Opportunity
Technology
Application
Confusion
Creating
Marketplace
New Technology
Words
Totally
Changing
Create
Existing
Meaning
Misconceptions
Potent
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A computer, by definition, cannot be held accountable for anything because there is no mechanism to hold it to account, short of turning off the electricity supply or destroying the hardware. Only humans can be accountable.
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Destroying
Electricity
Hardware
Mechanism
Account
Turning
Definition
Held
Supply
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People go on exploration; they're trying to find places that weren't known before. But it is an inevitable fact of research, as is in any other form of exploration of the unknown, that some people find they go down a dead end.
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Exploration
Inevitable
Unknown
Dead End
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Distributed ledgers are inherently harder to attack because instead of a single database, there are multiple shared copies of the same database, so a cyber stack would have to attack all the copies simultaneously to be successful.
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Copies
Cyber
Harder
Multiple
Successful
Attack
Database
Distributed
Inherently
Instead
Stack
Shared
Simultaneously
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It would be silly not to admit that there are some sections of the public who are unconvinced by the benefits or have doubts about the motives behind it. We have to be clear that GM is not all about profits for multinational companies.
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Sections
Silly
Admit
Doubts
Gm
Motives
Multinational
Profits
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Distributed ledger technologies have the potential to help governments to collect taxes, deliver benefits, issue passports, record land registries, assure the supply chain of goods, and generally ensure the integrity of government records and services.
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Benefits
Goods
Integrity
Supply Chain
Assure
Chain
Collect
Deliver
Distributed
Ensure
Governments
Supply
Technologies
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We take it for granted that because our shelves and supermarkets are heaving with food that there are no problems with food security. But we have limited land in the U.K., and climate disruption and population growth are putting pressure on food supply.
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Disruption
Food Supply
Granted
Population
Population Growth
Shelves
No Problems
Supply
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The problem of poor vision has gone unnoticed for too long - it's astounding that 700 years after glasses were first invented, there are still 2.5 billion people across the world without access to something as simple as eye screening or a pair of glasses.
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Glasses
Screening
Unnoticed
Astounding
Billion
Pair
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Of course methane is a fossil fuel, but as long as it is burned efficiently and fugitive emissions of methane gas are minimised, it is a less harmful fossil fuel than coal and oil and is an important way-station on the global journey towards low-carbon energy.
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Burned
Coal
Emissions
Fossil Fuel
Fuel
Gas
Efficiently
Fossil
Harmful
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There is a particular set of values commonly associated with being professional. Experience, expertise, trustworthiness, wisdom, and good judgement are all attributes aspired to by senior professional people, be they doctors, engineers, lawyers, civil servants, or the clergy.
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Wisdom
Attributes
Clergy
Doctors
Engineers
Expertise
Judgement
Particular
Senior
Values
Good Experience People
Wisdom Good Experience
Aspired
Associated
Civil
Commonly
Wisdom Experience Good
Particular Set
Professional
Servants
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Sharing data allows us to research, communicate, consume media, buy and sell, play games, and more. In return, businesses develop products, scientists undertake research, and governments use data to enable voting, inform policies, collect tax, and provide better public services.
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Communicate
Data
Products
Research
Return
Voting
Tax
Businesses
Collect
Consume
Develop
Enable
Sell
Governments
Inform
Policies
Provide
Scientists
Services
Sharing
Undertake
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The involvement of clinicians, researchers, and, most importantly, the thousands of people who have donated DNA samples will help us to correlate genetic variation with individual variation in health and disease and help to deliver on the long-term promise of the Human Genome Project.
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Dna
Genome
Involvement
Long Term
Promise
Researchers
Variation
Health People Will
Correlate
Deliver
Donated
Importantly
Samples
Thousands Of People
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People have extreme beliefs about whether it is right for humans to tamper with embryos in any way at all. Sometimes the values discussion gets conflated with the science discussion. We shouldn't pretend we're having an argument about science when we're having an argument about values.
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Discussion
Embryos
Science People Way
Extreme
Beliefs
Pretend
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Many families would like to avoid burdening future generations with inherited diseases such as haemophilia or severe developmental disorders. But most would think it wrong to edit the genes that influence the 'normal' range of human variation, from eye colour to intelligence or athletic ability.
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Colour
Developmental
Generations
Range
Severe
Variation
Diseases
Disorders
Edit
Future Generations
Inherited
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Wellcome Trust focuses on supporting outstanding researchers, accelerating the application of research, and exploring medicine in historical and cultural contexts. We believe passionately that breakthroughs emerge when the most talented researchers are given the resources and freedom they need to pursue their goals.
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Accelerate
Application
Exploring
Medicine
Outstanding
Pursue
Research
Resources
Breakthroughs
Cultural
Talented
Emerge
Passionately
Supporting
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The question is, are there useful things that we can do with the results of a genome sequence that would bring benefit? And the answer is, today, should the majority of people go and have their genome sequenced? Probably not. But are there particular circumstances in which genome sequencing is really helpful? Yes, there are.
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Circumstances
Genome
Helpful
Majority
Particular
Results
Sequence
Useful
Benefit
Yes
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I look forward to working closely with the Research Councils, Innovate UK, and Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), as we work together to create UKRI. I also look forward to working closely with all of our research and innovation communities to provide a strong and coherent voice for U.K. science and innovation.
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Council
Funding
Higher Education
Education Work Science
Closely
Coherent
Innovate
Uk
Work Together
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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 properly shared, so I wouldn't know exactly what was in the hospital records; patients would be lost. Computerization gives the opportunity to actually get the information much better.
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Familiar
Medicine
Twenty Five
Exactly What
Hospital
Patients
Properly
Shared
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We do some experiments in humans, some in mice, and there are some questions that can only be answered in nonhuman primates. It's true that you can't immediately say that those experiments will translate into human health, but nevertheless, it is obvious that having an understanding of human memory is going to be important for human health.
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Experiments
Human Health
Mice
Nevertheless
Obvious
Answered
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