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Lawrence Summers
(30 Nov 1954 - )
American economist was president of Harvard University, U.S. Treasury Secretary (1999-2001) and an economic adviser to President Barack Obama (2009-2010).
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Science Quotes by Lawrence Summers (1 quote)
If the potential of modern science is to be realized, there is no alternative to global public goods and institutions.
— Lawrence Summers
(2000). Epigraph in Dana Dalrymple, 'Scientific Knowledge as a Global Public Good: Contributions to Innovation and the Economy', collected in National Research Council, et. al., The Role of Scientific and Technical Data and Information in the Public Domain: Proceedings of a Symposium (2003), 35.
National Research Council, Policy and Global Affairs, Board on International Scientific Organizations - 2003
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
