Biotechnology refers to the application of biological systems, organisms, or derivatives thereof to develop products or processes for specific purposes. It involves utilizing living organisms or their systems to create or modify products, improve agricultural productivity, enhance healthcare, or address environmental challenges. Biotechnology encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including molecular biology, genetics, biochemistry, microbiology, and engineering, and it plays a significant role in fields such as medicine, agriculture, food production, and environmental conservation.
Biotechnology Quotes
1. “The rewards for biotechnology are tremendous – to solve disease, eliminate poverty, age gracefully. It sounds so much cooler than Facebook.”
— George M. Church
2. “We must address, individually and collectively, moral and ethical issues raised by cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence and biotechnology, which will enable significant life extension, designer babies, and memory extraction.”
— Klaus Schwab
3. “The potential for synthetic biology and biotechnology is vast; we all have an opportunity to create the future together.”
— Ryan Bethencourt
4. “The way we’re really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, biotechnology industries that will create the millions of new jobs.”
— Joe Lieberman
5. “The success stories in biotechnology are mainly due to the straightforward application of design thinking in both the business and science aspects of our lean startups.”
— Ryan Bethencourt
6. “I’m very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.”
— Lois McMaster Bujold
7. “I believe that properly regulated research in stem-cell biotechnology will lead to many valuable improvements in medical treatment and that objections on religious or ethical grounds should be vigorously opposed.”
— Jed Mercurio
8. “Feeding the world will be one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. It will be impossible without using scientific advancements and biotechnology.”
— Mike Pompeo
9. “We’ll continue to heal human bodies through biotechnology but we’ll also increasingly feed, clothe and house the world through bioengineered systems. Ultimately, there’s no reason why live animals should be used in any part of our food or goods chain and we’re working to make that a reality.”
— Ryan Bethencourt
10. “In 1986, I was asked by the then-Dean of Science at the University of British Columbia, Dr. R.C. Miller, Jr., to establish a new interdisciplinary institute, the Biotechnology Laboratory. I decided that it was time for me to start paying back for the thirty years of fun that I had been able to have in research.”
— Michael Smith
11. “Enzymes – plainly the most important biotechnology of our era – already permeate many industrial processes. Unlike fossil fuels, they carry chemical programming which drives complex reactions, are renewable, and work at ordinary pressures and temperatures.”
— Gregory Benford
12. “Artists should be able to thrive and allow their ideas to flourish as much as those in biotechnology or finance.”
— Kehinde Wiley
13. “In the early 19th century, when the country was transitioning from an agrarian to an industrial economy, we subsidised transportation and created a national bank. In the post-WWII era, we as a federal government made strategic investments in emerging technologies including microelectronics, telecommunications and biotechnology.”
— Brian Deese
14. “Biotechnology is evolving rapidly in the 21st century and leading firms like Bode help drive the Commonwealth’s position as a leader in this vital sector. We look forward to continuing to see the company’s impact and thank Bode Technology for its confidence in Virginia.”
— Glenn Youngkin
15. “If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do.”
— Alex Berenson
16. “I want American Dream growth – lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.”
— William J. Clinton
17. “Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.”
— Leon Kass
18. “A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests, exotic micro-organisms have arisen independently of terrestrial life, studying them could revolutionise biology, medicine and biotechnology.”
— Paul Davies
19. “The biotechnology wave is similar to the information technology wave of the 1980s and 1990s.”
— Dietmar Hopp
20. “My sense is that we’re ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas – there’s personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.”
— Jon Huntsman, Jr.
21. “If you think about brewing, it is biotechnology. And I would say that I was a technologist at heart. So whether I… fermented beer or whether I fermented enzymes, the base technology was the same.”
— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
22. “I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.”
— Freeman Dyson
23. “I’m a computer scientist by training. I’m also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, ‘The Infinite Resource,’ I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.”
— Ramez Naam
24. “The unmerited fear of genetically modified organism crops threatens scientific advancements in biotechnology needed to meet the growing global demand for safe and affordable food.”
— Mike Pompeo
25. “I have spent my entire career in vaccine development, in the government with CDC and BARDA and also in the biotechnology industry.”
— Rick Bright
