Quotes About Contribution

It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

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.

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

Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.

Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of life.

Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing Newton's masterful account of his discoveries.

I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.

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

We speak piously of ... making small studies that will add another brick to the temple of science. Most such bricks just lie around the brickyard.

Your ability to show discretion defines your likeliness to contribute to a wholesome performance.

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.

Each breath we take, each step we make, each smile we realize, is a positive contribution to peace... a necessary step in the direction of peace for the world.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

By getting an opportunity to serve society, we get a chance to repay our debt.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose only contributions to society are their complaints and moral exhibitionism.

A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.

Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.

To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world.

The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

Muslims in the West and those in other intellectually free societies will be in a position to contribute to Islamic thought more so than those who are based in repressive environments where censorship and restriction on freedom still dominate thinking. The future development of Islamic thought may depend to a certain extent on the degree of intellectual freedom in Muslim societies.

The Jewish contribution to the idea of love is the conception of love of the Sabbath, the love of a day, of spirit in the form of time.

The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.