science Quotes

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

Even in some of our vaccine areas, like an AIDS vaccine, things have taken longer than we expected, but we have the pipeline of tools. The biological information that we have that gives us insights is fantastic.

Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.

We're very enthused about the idea that in the third trimester we actually give the mother a vaccine and her antibodies, the protective things that the immune system makes, actually pass through to the baby, both when the baby is... ...

The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.

The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich system it is.

The market does not drive the scientists, the communicators, the thinkers, the government to do the right things.

The pace of progress in biology creates a foundation that naturally gets picked up by the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to solve rich-world diseases. This is attractive science. It's science that people want to work on.

I don't think I would have spent time learning about the immune system if understanding vaccines weren't something I considered very important.

I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.