Mark Walport Quotes

The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about.

I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way.

The world is too complicated to have scientists only talking to scientists.

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

If scientists can't communicate with the public, with policy makers, with one another, the future is going to be held back. We're not going to have the future that we could have.

I'm a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of teaching.

The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world.

The value of a scientific publication goes beyond this simple benefit, of all relevant information appearing, unambiguously, in one place. It's also a way to communicate your ideas to your scientific peers, and invite them to express an informed view.

Unfortunately, science cannot be reduced to short, catchy phrases. And if this is all that the general public can comprehend, it's no wonder that we spend so much of our time in the interminable debate about belief in God, or lack thereof.

If you publish a scientific paper it is very hard to start a nationwide debate about something. If you do this in a movie, you can start a debate. We like to create a bridge between those two worlds - film and science.

I like to believe that science is becoming mainstream. It should have never been something that sort of geeky people do and no one else thinks about. Whether or not, it will always be what geeky people do. It should, as a minimum, be what everybody thinks about because science is all around us.

My efforts are focused on ensuring that CERN maintains a leading role in the fields of science, technology and education, and that it continues to be a place that unites scientists from around the world.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

I really like that my work is getting more people interested in science.

Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.

Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that science is everywhere; science is not something you can step around or sweep under the rug.

Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.

We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the public. Man has a fundamental urge to comprehend the world about him …

Public sharing is an important part of science.

One of the best and most responsible things a scientist can do is to write for the popular press.

The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business.

The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough if they spread the knowledge as widely as possible.

The decline in funding for the physical sciences has put our Nation's capabilities for scientific innovation at risk.

There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.