British - Scientist | March 27, 1942 - March 6, 2018
What is the purpose of being human and alive without doing new things?
John Sulston
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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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The free market is the epitome of life itself. This is something that all scientists recognise because science itself operates on free market lines.
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As far back as I remember, and earlier, I was an artisan, a maker and doer. Mechanically minded, my parents said.
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Biomedical research is only as good as its delivery. Distribution of medicines by charities is no more than a stopgap.
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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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You have to say - and I do - that anything that blocks that cheapest possible point-of-care delivery of health is wrong.
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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.
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On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.
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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.
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When it came to choice of subjects, science was obvious - since I was uninterested in anything else - but a decision that caused consternation in some eyes was my demand to take biology for A-level.
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Many people thought that, given my knowledge of the egg, I should analyse embryonic mutants.
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