Quote of the day. Merck's R&D

“Isaac Newton knew the calculations. Whereas, if we’re discovering drugs, the problem is that we just don’t know enough. We really understand very little about human physiology. We don’t know how the machine works, so it’s not a surprise that when it’s broken, we don’t know how to fix it. The fact that we ever make a drug that gives favorable effects is a bloody miracle because it’s very difficult to understand what went wrong.”

 

 

 

Very nice reading is here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2013/09/19/merck-rd-head-bets-slashing-bureaucracy-will-unlock-innovation/