Quotes About Impact

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.

Going viral isn't random, magic, or luck. It's a science.

On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.

Climate change: Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics

It has cost them but a moment to cut off that head; but a hundred years will not be sufficient to produce another like it.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.

The most humble research scientist in the Department of Agriculture is at this time contributing more to this country than the most useful member of Congress.

Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications of scientific research.

What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into science very quickly.

With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.

It is a real service to humanity and the world to be a good programmer, particularly if you design great products. You make is easier for everybody, everybody has less headaches.

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

If you can't change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world?

There's no shortage of people that we can put on, because science touches us all.

When we benefit from CT scanners, M.R.I. devices, pacemakers and arterial stents, we can immediately appreciate how science affects the quality of our lives.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.