Quotes on Science And Technology

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential. This is especially true of science and technology, where women with a surplus of talent still face a deficit of opportunity.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything - until, that is, it comes to climate science.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

It's perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution, toxic and radioactive wastes, acid rain, topsoil erosion, tropical deforestation, exponential population growth. Jobs and wages depend on science and technology.

Technology is driving us together. In many ways we are becoming like one family. With the global threats resulting from science and technology, the whole of humankind now needs protection. We have to extend our loyalty to the whole of the human race.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.

This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it.

We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of preeminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.