Kary Mullis Quotes

The future of society is 100% dependent on scientific advances.

It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.

Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.

I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.

I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.

As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.

It takes years to realize the multiple benefits of science; without adequate, sustained funding for research, the careers of many bright, young scientists may come to a screeching halt.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

If I could snap my fingers and do one thing in science, I would get more funding for basic science. But the level of funding that needs to be done is not on the order of millions, like the cost of the Breakthrough Prizes. It's billions to tens of billions.

For most of human civilization, the pace of innovation has been so slow that a generation might pass before a discovery would influence your life, culture or the conduct of nations.

You cannot create new science unless you realize where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

One can not impede scientific progress.

I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us - aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.

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 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.

We are a society now that is 100 percent dependent on science.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.