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I think funding risky projects is very important.

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I was a daydreamer. Teachers kept telling me to pay attention.

Roderick Mackinnon

I find I get fixed in my ways if I don't change. I think I take too many things for granted.

Roderick Mackinnon

Some people look at big things, and other people look at very small things, but in a sense, we're all trying to understand the world around us.

Roderick Mackinnon

You hear a lot of scientists say the same thing. It doesn't have to be a big thing because the thing about being a scientist is even the little things are big things to us.

Roderick Mackinnon

One problem with politics is that it is a zero sum game, i.e. politicians argue how to cut the pie smaller and smaller, by reshuffling pieces of the pie. I think this is destructive. Instead, we should be creating a bigger pie, i.e. funding the science that is the source of all our prosperity. Science is not a zero sum game.

Michio Kaku Physicist

There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.

Anne Campbell Politician

Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.

Bjorn Lomborg Writer

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

Bobby Scott U.S. Representative

A NASA-funded study estimates that if the price of a ticket to space approached $100,000, close to a million people would buy one. That's a $100 billion industry. Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gave me $20 million in startup funding to go after that market.

Burt Rutan Aerospace Engineering

Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

Donald Berwick M.D.

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