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I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.

Most great advances have been a collaboration. That is the joy of science for me.

Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds.

A lot of the data we collect is stuff that has to be analyzed on the ground. For instance, we can't see, you know, bone loss. Our cells, you know, that's something that we'll have to notice with imaging technology when I get back.

Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not just to make discoveries.

Telescopes and microscopes bring to our view the otherwise unseen and unknown.

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.

I've always been very interested in the question of how computation can fundamentally advance the things that we can see. This led me to have a fascination with medical imaging, especially things like MRI and scanning, and eventually computer graphics.

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.