Richard Le Gallienne Quotes

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.

As humans, we've always innovated our way out of problems, whether it was the first torch to light a dark cave or the steam engine that sparked a revolution.

I spend money on war because it is necessary, but to spend it on science, that is pleasant to me. This object costs no tears; it is an honour to humanity

But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.

Science or research is always under pressure to deliver something which can be used immediately for society.

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

I support basic research, which can lead to discoveries that change our world, expand our horizons and save lives.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.

Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.

For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.

Once you have speech, you don't have to wait for natural selection! If you want more strength, you build a stealth bomber; if you don't like bacteria, you invent penicillin; if you want to communicate faster, you invent the Internet. Once speech evolved, all of human life changed.

As for the "triumphs of science," let us honour, with astonishment and awe, the genius of those who invented them; but let us remember that the things themselves are as a gun or a sword, with which we can kill our enemy, but with which also our enemy can kill us.

Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.

REVOLUTION IN SCIENCE.

In holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.

The United States needs to be a leader in scientific research.

Science merely amplifies the capabilities of human beings. Science gives us the ability to do ill and to do good more than we had, and to question science in this respect is like questioning whether people ought to have two hands or just one, because with two hands they could do more evil than they can with just one.

So now, if we don't fund the physical sciences, where will the Next Big Thing come from?

We should explore ways to make us a more amazing species. A more fascinating society. We should embrace our innovations and evolve with them.

Indian science has a bright future.

I came to CSIR with a passion to apply all of my scientific - entrepreneurial talents to help uplift the masses of Indians through the delivery of technologies.

In tech communities, we consider disruption the way to lead to innovation.

The way to solve problems in the world is to become scientists and technologists and build things that haven't been built before and discover things that people really don't know about.

If we choose to ignore science and refuse to fund important scientific research, we voluntarily cede our place as a world leader in innovation.