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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.

I believe our basic information, our 'software', should be free and open for everyone to play with, to compete with, to try and make products from. I do not believe it should be under the control of one person.

John Sulston

On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.

John Sulston

As far back as I remember, and earlier, I was an artisan, a maker and doer. Mechanically minded, my parents said.

John Sulston

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.

John Sulston

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.

John Sulston

An awful lot of food is thrown away. This you can call a spillover. It doesn't sort of enter into our economic system because it's a consequence of running things in a highly competitive way: the free market, global pricing and so on.

John Sulston

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

John Sulston

There's always a tension between those who would like to garner wealth, and they contribute a lot to society. There's also those who say, 'I believe in the common good. I want that to be enlarged.' They contribute a lot to society. The tension, the debate, between these two views is extremely important to our progress.

John Sulston

Biomedical research is only as good as its delivery. Distribution of medicines by charities is no more than a stopgap.

John Sulston

Whilst worthy in themselves, applications shouldn't be the only way to drive basic research.

John Sulston

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.

John Sulston

I'm pleased that some economists and sociologists are beginning to talk about, for example, alternative measures of human well-being - alternative, that is, to GDP, on which the world runs.

John Sulston

The Wellcome Trust is a hugely important organisation, and it is vital that its fundraising continues unabated.

John Sulston

You have to say - and I do - that anything that blocks that cheapest possible point-of-care delivery of health is wrong.

John Sulston

Our work on C. elegans emphasized the benefits of sharing large amounts of information. We took a global approach to discover the mechanisms that led to the development of the worm.

John Sulston

Many people thought that, given my knowledge of the egg, I should analyse embryonic mutants.

John Sulston

If we understand the worm, we understand life.

John Sulston