“Climate change is happening, and humans are significant contributors, ...” — Mark Walport Quote

“Climate change is happening, and humans are significant contributors, and that raises some really important policy questions.”

“It's been an enormous privilege to be the government chief scientific adviser.”

“The involvement of clinicians, researchers, and, most importantly, the thousands of people who have donated DNA samples will help us to correlate genetic variation with individual variation in health and disease and help to deliver on the long-term promise of the Human Genome Project.”

“Either you change with the times or you get rolled over.”

“My main purpose is to try in some way to change perceptions and stigma so that people with disabilities can get out and live the life they deserve to live. That's what gets me out of bed every day.”

“We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.”