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Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, 2009
Claremont Graduate University
"It is time to understand who we are, because we may not be here long if we don't."
József Pálinkás, 2009
President, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
"We have to reaffirm the importance of making substantial effort to educate and inform the general public by communicating science to them."
József Pálinkás, 2009
President, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
"We have the responsibility to incorporate much more expertise and knowledge in our local and global decision making."
Alan I. Leshner, 2007
Chief Executive Officer, AAAS
"For individual people to prosper anywhere in our world, they need to have access to the fruits of science, they need to have a fundamental understanding of the nature of science, and a comfort with scientific progress."
Arden L. Bement, 2007
Director, National Science Foundation (NSF), USA
"International cooperation is the new standard model for innovation. The issue is not whether international partnerships are necessary and vital but how we can make partnerships work faster, smarter and better."
Roland Schenkel, 2007
Director General, Joint Research Center, EU
"Above all, what we see clearly is a change in mentality, in Europe there is again the will for excellence, the strive for excellence, for competition… We know what is required in order to make champions, it is autonomy, flexibility, but also accountability."
Alan I. Leshner, 2007
Chief Executive Officer, AAAS
"For nations, to prosper, they need to have indigenous scientific capacity that is sufficient to allow them to participate fully not only in the generation of science but in ripping the benefits of it."
Alan I. Leshner, 2007
Chief Executive Officer, AAAS
"I extend the challenge to all of us, to keep talking, but let’s increase the actions as well."
Sylvie Lemmet, 2007
Director, UNEP Division of Technology, Industry and Economics
"Economic growth in our modern times can simply no longer be achieved with actual consumption and production patterns, and in order to take on this enormous challenge, we need to mobilise all knowledge of the world."
Julia Marton-Lefévre, 2007
Director-General, World Conservation Union (IUCN)
"This has been a remarkably stimulating meeting and I feel a deep sense of appreciation and admiration for the amazing science that is done by all of you."
Julia Marton-Lefévre, 2007
Director-General, World Conservation Union (IUCN)
"An immense gratitude for the outstanding hospitality of Hungary in the organisation of these important dialogues which have brought together so many key players from so many different sectors."
Koichiro Matsuura, 2007
Director-General, UNESCO
"By bringing together policy makers, scientists, representatives of international organisations, academic institutions, and media, World Science Forum has become a unique platform for exchange and reflection on science and its role in meeting the urgent challenges that humanity is facing."
Dennis Meadows, 2009
Director, Institute for Policy and Social Science Research at the University of New Hampshire
"This is not a party. This is supposed to be an effort to think how we might be able to save out species."
Dennis Meadows, 2009
Director, Institute for Policy and Social Science Research at the University of New Hampshire
"With social, cultural, economic changes, combined with technology, you can produce more attractive futures."
Mathis Wackernagel, 2009
Executive Director, Global Footprint Network
"We know more about the future than we want to know. Why don’t we take an advantage of this knowledge?"
Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, 2009
Claremont Graduate University
"Now it is science that is promising to make the world better, and make the life of the people better."
Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, 2009
Claremont Graduate University
"Science has the responsibility to become the ethical beader in helping human evolution in future, because nobody else is really that qualified or able to do that."
Werner Arber, 2009
Nobel Laureate
"Once you have knowledge you can think to apply it for our benefit."
Walter Erdelen, 2009
Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences, UNESCO
"The 1999 Budapest World Conference on Science was a landmark in policy terms: setting a global policy framework to advance science worldwide."
Gudmund Hernes, 2009
President, ISSC
"We have to commit now, and we have to commit here."
Alan I. Leshner, 2009
Chief Executive Officer, AAAS
"There has to be a way to harmonize science policies across countries and we can work on it."
Alan I. Leshner, 2009
Chief Executive Officer, AAAS
"The good news is that every survey that’s ever done says that people like science. That always makes me feel good."
Alan I. Leshner, 2009
Chief Executive Officer, AAAS
"The purpose of science is to tell us about the nature, the natural world, whether you like the answer or not."
Alan I. Leshner, 2009
Chief Executive Officer, AAAS
"It’s our obligation, the people in this room, who represent the leadership of the world scientific community as we’re here for the World Science Forum, to take up what needs to be done as we move into the future decade."
Catherine Bréchignac, 2009
President, International Council for Science (ICSU)
"There’s no science without technology. Science is more the knowledge and technology is the know-how."
Arden L. Bement, 2007
Director, National Science Foundation (NSF), USA
"We share commitment to promote world class research and education in our respective nations around the globe. And I suspect we have several philosophies about how to accomplish our task. Nevertheless, collectively we face a changing research landscape that is at once exciting, as well as uncertain."
Jacob Palis, 2007
President, Brazilian Academy of Sciences
"New players from Brazil, China, India and elsewhere in the south have entered the scientific arena as equals and advance in research, both in the north and the south, have helped improve the life and health of hundreds of millions of people."
Ichiro Kanazawa, 2007
President, Science Council of Japan
"The advancement of science and technology has brought prosperity and quality of life to humankind, but its benefits are not equally shared, and it raises important ethical, safety and environmental issues."
John Needle, 2007
Director, London International Youth Science Forum
"The mission of this third World Science Forum here in Hungary is for science to make a significant contribution to the sustainable livelihood and development of humankind."
Kati Marton, 2007
Chair, International Women's Health Coalition; Director, Committee to Protect Journalists
"I want to take you on a journey. … A journey that follows the lives of nine extraordinary sons of Budapest who really did change the world."
Savita Singh, 2007
Director, Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, India
"Information leads to knowledge, knowledge must lead to wisdom."
Mari Kivinemi, 2007
Prime minster of Finland 2010-
"Prioritizing investment in R&D should be a permanent process requiring wide political acceptance."
Sir George Radda, 2007
University of Oxford; Chairman of the Singapore Bioimaging Consortium
"Science has become a global enterprise."
Walter Erdelen, 2007
Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences, UNESCO
"Today’s society is increasingly a knowledge society where access to information and knowledge is the major determinant of economic growth, sustainable development and social and political participation."
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