Robert Winston Quotes

Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

Historically, science and society have gone separate ways, although society has provided the funds for science to grow, and in return, science has given society all the material things it enjoys.

Our world has evolved and grown more technologically savvy. Lawmakers need to adjust to these changes.

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.

Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

Regulation needs to catch up with innovation.

Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your nation tomorrow, then you'd better rethink how you allocate taxes to fund science. The federal budget needs to recognize this.

Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.

We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation.

We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life.

Faced with the profound changes that AI technologies can produce, pressure for "more" and "tougher" regulation is inevitable. Misunderstanding about what AI is and is not, especially against a background of scare-mongering, could fuel opposition to technologies that could benefit everyone. This would be a tragic mistake. Regulation that stifles innovation, or relocates it to other jurisdictions, would be similarly counterproductive.

… countries that are behind in their industrial and scientific development are tempted at times to steal those technologies from other countries.

There is no question but … science is the weakest in the lands of Islam. The dangers of this weakness cannot be overemphasized since honorable survival of a society depends directly on strength in science and technology …

Legislation against this type of cloning [therapeutic] is Canute against the ocean …. medieval views must not hold back the future…. We need government as a partner, not as an enemy.

With 5% of the world’s population, the United States employs about a third of all the research and development workers in the world.

Technology is always ahead of the law.

Many of our advances in science and technology were seeded through government.

In an era of ever-increasing globalization, what it takes to become and remain a science superpower has fundamentally changed.

Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.

What's important for all of us as chip companies is to keep the innovation going: putting out new products, figuring out how we connect these complex systems.

Congress should... at least keep pace with technological advances.

Today, more than ever before, science holds the key to our survival as a planet and our security and prosperity as a nation. It's time we once again put science at the top of our agenda and work to restore America's place as the world leader in science and technology.

Ensuring that the US continues to lead the world in science and technology will be a central priority for my administration.

This is not yet a scientific age.