Harold E. Varmus Quotes

Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.

I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the foundations I'm involved in. Science gives hope.

And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.

We should be focused on how to make people's lives better. That is the purpose of technology.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

I really think that technology has the greatest potential to accelerate happiness of most things in the world. The companies that will ultimately do well are the companies that chase happiness. If you find a way to help people find love, or health or friendship, the dollar will chase that.

I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

I want to make a difference in the world because I believe that's what science is for.

We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental to our way of life, and, at the same time, take advantage of those aspects of change which will enhance and improve our quality of life.

Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds.

I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.

When we benefit from CT scanners, M.R.I. devices, pacemakers and arterial stents, we can immediately appreciate how science affects the quality of our lives.

We like to believe that, in our lifetime, the human condition is improving.

Science is inextricably linked to our economy. It has been for the last 50 years and it will be for the next 50 years.

Our security and independence require that more young people devote themselves to science and research.

The public hears that we're Number 1 in science and they want to know why that fact isn't making their lives better.

The emergence of modern science as a major new frontier of advancement that would lead, on one hand, to the discovery of new secrets of the universe, the invention of means to harness those secrets and the powers they represented, and the means to improve human health and allow humans to survive to both undertake that work and to enjoy its fruits.

Among men of good will, science and democracy together offer an ever-richer life and ever-larger satisfaction to the individual.

Modern science, when devoted whole-heartedly to the general welfare, has in it potentialities of which we do not yet dream.

Modern civilization depends on science …

Who brings tomorrow into the present if not the scientists, technicians and engineers?