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Science and the many benefits that science has produced have played a crucial part in our history and produced vast improvements to human welfare.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I don't want a few extra weeks of life at enormous cost, for example, when it comes to the end.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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We can choose to address the twin issues of population and consumption to rebalance the use of resources to a more egalitarian pattern of consumption.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Scientist

Born: March 27th, 1942

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