Quotes About Impact

To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it).

Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.

The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course.

Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course.

Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

No effect that requires more than 10 percent accuracy in measurement is worth investigating.

True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter.

As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles, and, as a toy it is beautiful; but ... its commercial value will be limited.

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

The simple rule about weapons is that if thery can be built, they will be built.

If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn't being political, it is being selfish.

Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.

A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.

The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.

Science, and its impact on a person's livelihood is the common denominator.

the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.

Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic

I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.

Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science.

The dangers that face the world can, every one of them, be traced back to science. The salvations that may save the world will, every one of them, be traced back to science.

That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.