\\ “[W]hen we ask how we can effectively do good in our careers, the key question is not how much scientific research on the whole has made the world better: it is “how do I expect the world to be different if I take up this career, rather than another one?” If Norman Borlaug had never lived his discoveries would eventually have been made by others. [W]e should think of achievements like Borlaug’s as bringing about technologies faster, rather than making them possible at all.”

— Carl Shulman, High Impact Science