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" An awful lot of food is thrown away. This you can call a spillover. It doesn't sort of enter into our economic system because it's a consequence of running things in a highly competitive way: the free market, global pricing and so on. "
Food
You
Running
" As far back as I remember, and earlier, I was an artisan, a maker and doer. Mechanically minded, my parents said. "
Back
Doer
Far
" Biomedical research is only as good as its delivery. Distribution of medicines by charities is no more than a stopgap. "
More
Research
Only
" I believe our basic information, our 'software', should be free and open for everyone to play with, to compete with, to try and make products from. I do not believe it should be under the control of one person. "
Believe
Try
Information
" I don't think one ought to bring a clearly disabled child into the world. "
Bring
Think
Clearly
" I don't want a few extra weeks of life at enormous cost, for example, when it comes to the end. "
Life
Cost
End
" If we understand the worm, we understand life. "
Life
Worm
Understand
" If you patent a discovery which is unique, say a human gene or even just one particular function of a human gene, then you are actually creating a monopoly, and that's not the purpose of the world of patents. "
Purpose
Discovery
You
" I'm pleased that some economists and sociologists are beginning to talk about, for example, alternative measures of human well-being - alternative, that is, to GDP, on which the world runs. "
World
Talk
Some
" In order to protect the market value of a proprietary database, the owner must prohibit redistribution of the contents - otherwise, the information would quickly leak out and be widely known. "
Information
Value
Protect
" In science, as in business, there must be structures that ensure the well endowed do not use their position to block competition. "
Position
Science
Business
" It is not a Pandora's box that science opens; it is, rather, a treasure chest. We, humanity, can choose whether or not to take out the discoveries and use them, and for what purpose. "
Science
Treasure
Purpose
" It is very clear that the present system of innovation for medicines is very inefficient and really somewhat corrupt. It benefits shareholders over patients; it produces for the rich markets and not for the poor and does not produce for minority diseases. "
Rich
Present
Poor
" It was a matter of not living lavishly but enjoying what you had, growing things with your hands, working hard, but not being tied to a nine-to-five job, and generally feeling that there's more to life than money. "
Job
Life
Feeling
" I wandered along to the chemistry labs, more or less on the rebound, and asked about becoming a research student. It was the '60s, a time of university expansion: the doors were open, and a 2:1 was good enough to get me in. "
Good
Doors
Enough
" I would say if we can select children who are not going to be severely disadvantaged, then we should do so, but I think it has to be done by voluntary choice. "
Choice
Done
Say
" Many people thought that, given my knowledge of the egg, I should analyse embryonic mutants. "
Many
Knowledge
Egg
" Muriel, my mother, was my main confidant. She was a teacher of English at Watford grammar school but took a break while my sister Madeleine and I were children. She held court in the kitchen, and we talked about everything. "
She
Sister
Teacher
" On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford. "
Mother
Side
Engineers
" Our work on C. elegans emphasized the benefits of sharing large amounts of information. We took a global approach to discover the mechanisms that led to the development of the worm. "
Development
Work
Information
" Science and the many benefits that science has produced have played a crucial part in our history and produced vast improvements to human welfare. "
Many
Welfare
Science
" The currencies of science are discoveries and ideas; the rewards are the excitement of going where nobody has been before and, if one is inclined to such things, the kudos of peer acclaim, plus funds to do more research. "
Research
More
Ideas
" The fact is that proprietary databases don't work for such basic and broadly needed information as the sequence of the human genome. "
Genome
Information
Work
" The free market is the epitome of life itself. This is something that all scientists recognise because science itself operates on free market lines. "
Life
Free Market
Free
" The fruits of science and innovation have nourished our society and economy for years, but nations unable to navigate our regulatory system are often excluded, as are vulnerable individuals. "
Economy
Society
Innovation
" The human world lives in a framework called global economics. We live in a system based on GDP, which drives consumption. it causes people to compete with each other through trade in a way that they all grow. "
Economics
Grow
World
" The myth is that IP rights are as important as our rights in castles, cars, and corn oil. IP is supposedly intended to encourage inventors and the investment needed to bring their products to the clinic and marketplace. "
Rights
Important
Corn
" The only thing I have retained from my upbringing - I did not retain the religious element - is the idea that you do not do things for money. "
Idea
Only
Things
" There's always a tension between those who would like to garner wealth, and they contribute a lot to society. There's also those who say, 'I believe in the common good. I want that to be enlarged.' They contribute a lot to society. The tension, the debate, between these two views is extremely important to our progress. "
Believe
Society
Progress
" The strong evidence is that we're running out of space. We're collectively affecting the world's climate. This is due to the still-growing human population and our increase in consumption. "
Evidence
World
Strong
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