Ryan Bethencourt Quotes

Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology.

I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.

If we can clean up our world, I'll bet you we can achieve warp drive.

Bio-technology is the science of the future.

The potential for synthetic biology and biotechnology is vast; we all have an opportunity to create the future together.

Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of scientific breakthroughs in the next generation.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? It's the ticket to solving the world's problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isn't for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world?

What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity.

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

If you develop in the old fashioned way there are enormous costs (to the environment)….but we have to demonstrate it, not just tell people.

Biology is now accelerating at a pace faster than Moore's Law.

With the observable fact that scientific knowledge makes our lives better when applied with concern for human welfare and environmental protection, there is no question that science and technology can produce abundance so that no one has to go without.

We are grounded in the reality of the day and grounded in the technology of the day. Just saying 'turn the taps off' is not acceptable to humanity.

I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.

I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning, just like the digital one was when I was his age.

Life is the ultimate technology. Machine technology is a temporary surrogate for life technology. As we improve our machines they will become more organic, more biological, more like life, because life is the best technology for living.

Biology - DNA - is technology. It is coding. It is physical coding, but still code.

We must feed, shelter, and nurture one another as our first priority, and to do so, we must avail ourselves of our best technologies, which have always included some type of genetic modification.

Biohackers want to tinker; do fun science; and, in the process, accelerate the pace of biotech innovation.

I wanted to rewrite the code of life, to make new molecular machines that would solve human problems.

An increased push for energy efficiency, renewable energy technology, electric mobility - along with the growing digitalization movement and a universal carbon pricing structure - would speed up the carbon-free future and the rise of a global middle class we desperately need. We can and must all do our part.

We're seeing a move toward making things that either chemistry cannot make or can't make efficiently but biology does.

I think my original inspiration came from just natural curiosity about science and math and biology. In particular, I would say that, as I matured, it became more a feeling of trying to avoid the waste that occurs in the world where we have 6.5 billion minds. If you're a computer scientist, you can think of them as supercomputers.

The future of innovation has to include not only the technology, but economic viability.