Can you see the world in a molecule? 

Look carefully.

Because it’s there.

All the answers in the world.

In the proteins and amino acids, peptide bonds and nucleotides. 

In building blocks and pathways. 

You think the iPhone is innovation? Try a COVID vaccine in six months. 

Right now, we’re working on the eradication of asthma, obesity, diabetes, AIDS, malaria, epilepsy, hepatitis C, bipolar depression, pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, lung cancer. To name a few. 

This isn’t about drugs. Big pharma. 

This is about the fact that for every 10,000 new projects our researchers start, only one will ever make as a new medicine. 

About the fact that we’ve helped more than 53 million Americans without insurance get their medicines for free or at a reduced cost. 

That we’ve given away 87 million treatments to treat the infections that cause blindness in poor countries. 

While we’re at it, think about the fact that lots of people out there hate us. 

And maybe have a right to. 

Because drugs are expensive. Because money’s tight. Because they’re sick.  

Because a father, a mother, a child just heard the bad diagnosis. 

We work here because we want to do something about it.

So today we try again. And fail again. And try harder again. 

We consider the molecule. 

That smallest of spaces where the largest answers are found. 

What a responsibility. What a privilege. 

What an extraordinary thing it is to be alive. 

Pfizer. Let’s outdo yesterday.