Ahmed Zewail Quotes

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

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.

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

I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.

I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.

One can not impede scientific progress.

I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what they're doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth.

The civilized world is far ahead of us. We have no choice but to catch up.

The strength of a nation is its knowledge.

In our State the locomotive has waked up the sleeping energies of a great people, and is transforming wasted fields into blooming gardens, and arousing men and women from the dull and heavy sleep that dwells with satisfaction upon the past, into the bright intelligence that looks to a glorious future ….

We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.

Who brings tomorrow into the present if not the scientists, technicians and engineers?

... science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

My final aim is to bring Iran, within twenty years, to the same level of civilization and progress as will be enjoyed by the most highly developed countries. During the last ten years the degree of our backwardness has been halved, but it is this remaining backwardness which will be the most difficult to combat.

Throughout history, rich nations have gotten to the future first. Their companies can afford to equip their tinkerers and visionaries with the most advanced materials, instruments and knowledge.

America [Latin America] shall not lag a century behind Europe: it will stride as an equal first, and lead later; it will, in the end, be the most illuminated by the sciences…

People want development, modern thinking. They want to encourage and support research in agriculture and other fields.

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

Science is the future of mankind.

Germany and France are pinning their hopes on young people, in terms of education, science and innovation.

To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.

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

Africa will thrive.