Quotes on Science Technology

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research, and providing incentives for private-sector R&D - should in my view be top priorities as Congress and the Administration consider how to maintain the nation's leadership in science, technology, and innovation.

We might sometimes reflect and recall that the purpose of all our science, technology, industry, manufacturing, commerce, and finance is celebration, planetary celebration. This is what moves the stars through the heavens and the earth through its seasons. The final norm of judgment concerning the success or failure of our technologies is the extent to which they enable us to participate more fully in this grand festival.

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture - religions, justice, trade, the arts, science, technology.

There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline , and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

We need all hands on deck, and that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.

All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.

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.

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

The earth, the sea and air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology, and education can be the ally of every nation.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

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.

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