Bush is responsible for the whole architecture of government support for science. Today, everyone thinks these terrific innovations came from the minds of bright kids, but they don't realize that these kids needed an environment to be in. It came from Bush. He said, 'Give these people money, let them play, and they'll come up with something.'

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The individual to me is everything. I would circumscribe him just as little as possible.

If we don't do it now, we'll probably never do it. We've built up the technology; we're at a point where if we don't continue, we'll lose that expertise, and w…

We cannot have tomorrow's miracles if we tie scientists' hands with yesterday's rules.

The publicly and privately supported colleges, universities, and research institutes are the centers of basic research. They are the wellsprings of knowledge a…