Barack Obama Quotes

Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your nation tomorrow, then you'd better rethink how you allocate taxes to fund science. The federal budget needs to recognize this.

Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

With 5% of the world’s population, the United States employs about a third of all the research and development workers in the world.

The spending in science and technology need to be to increased.

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

The U.S. has always been a global innovation vanguard - driving advancements in computing, communication, and media to rail, automobiles, and aeronautics.

Today, more than ever before, science holds the key to our survival as a planet and our security and prosperity as a nation. It's time we once again put science at the top of our agenda and work to restore America's place as the world leader in science and technology.

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today.

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

You always need to be on the lookout for the next kind of great technology.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation.

I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology.

If we do not have more scientific graduates from the university we will lose contact with modernity.

Science is inextricably linked to our economy. It has been for the last 50 years and it will be for the next 50 years.

Our future progress and prosperity depend upon our ability to equal, if not surpass, other nations in the enlargement and advance of science, industry and commerce.

Innovation is the key to the future, but basic research is the key to future innovation.

Never bet against science!

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from - and with - each other.

We know that the hardest work is to keep yourself open to the world that technology hasn't tamed.

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

Creative universities are bedrock of every developed nation's S&T strategy.