1647: Eric S. Lander
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2026/02/19
“Science and technology … are among the most powerful forces ever devised to better the human condition.”
“We see amazing opportunities ahead, but also unprecedented challenges.”
“To succeed, America will need to draw on all of its assets — chief among them, our unrivaled diversity.”
“And it’s this virtuous cycle between fundamental basic science and highly applied medical science, where each drives the other.”
“The world moves farther and faster than most people think.”
“Scholarship is the sum of two things: knowledge and imagination.”
“They said, not a chance, we never imagined that we’d be able, in our lifetime, be able to read out all that information.”
“I think we can enlist the full power of science in the service of justice.”
“Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge … contributes … to our collective understanding of the natural world.”
“In elevating OSTP to the Cabinet, President Biden made clear that science and technology will be central to solving the nation’s most urgent challenges.”
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