Anne, Princess Royal Quotes

India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.

I'm fascinated with genetic science, and I have been for a very long time. I always look at science and technology because I think that the developments in my lifetime have been so remarkable - and we're only at the tip of the iceberg with projects like decoding the human genome.

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

Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power in the hands of the good man, it also offers an equal advantage to the evil disposed.

Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy.

Here at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, we have genetically rearranged various viruses and bacteria as part of our medical research. In fact, we have been able to create entirely new types of DNA molecules by splicing together the genetic information from different organisms - recombinant DNA.

Government is averse to taking risk. Innovation and digital technology is all about risk taking.

New technologies are often met with skepticism. But if the world is to continue the remarkable progress of the past few decades, it is vital that scientists, subject to safety and ethics guidelines, be encouraged to continue taking advantage of such promising tools as CRISPR.

My DNA is building a product and a service.

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

Tampering with humanity is pretty scary.

If I were 21 years old, I would go into biotechnology or genetic engineering.

The very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used to undermine us and inflict great harm.

Biology, it's the technology which builds our world, and we can harness it to shift humanity from a scarcity to an abundance economy.

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.

Science plays a huge role in our lives. We're surrounded by technology, we depend on it.

Human beings have been manipulating the biological world for thousands of years without understanding how DNA codes function.

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

Genetic modification is a very powerful tool. But like any powerful tool, when using it, you have to take into account the environmental impact, the food safety aspects and so on. There must be a strong regulatory mechanism.

I do think that deciding between a particular discovery and a technological breakthrough - I would always think the impact is probably much larger for the technological breakthrough.

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

Whatever science fiction movies we watch now, we can make the technology real in two days. What we can do is not important. What we should do is more important.

As a scientist I cannot say we don't want to hear anything about GMOs, because these are advances in science. But I think its also important, especially when you are dealing with food, to be cautious.

The imperative to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale no longer seems like the childish preoccupation of a few nerds with slide rulers - It's the only way for the human race to escape from its current predicaments - Too bad we've forgotten how to do it

I'm as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with Jurassic Park. But the danger is that it can be abused to the point where nothing is eye-popping any more.