Ramez Naam Quotes

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Science and technology are going to be the basis for many of the solutions to social problems.

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

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.

We must not be afraid to push boundaries; instead, we should leverage our science and our technology, together with our creativity and our curiosity, to solve the world's problems.

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

Techno-optimism is a belief in the power of technology to extend our sphere of possibilities and, ultimately, a belief that technology helps us solve and transcend problems, limitations and obstacles.

It's a brave new world.

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

Scientists are not these guys in lab coats deep in the inner bowels of universities and hospitals with their Bunsen burners. They're the people molding the culture that we live in, the future of our culture, and the technology we rely on every day.

I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like a future than the futures that we're being sold on the screen and on television.

What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? It's the ticket to solving the world's problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isn't for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world?

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.

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

I'm an optimist about the power of technology to transform lives for the better.

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

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

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

All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compared with what will finally mature.

It was a case of the technology catching up with the problem.

There are many men now living who were in the habit of using the age-old expression: 'It is as impossible as flying.' The discoveries in physical science, the triumphs in invention, attest the value of the process of trial and error. In large measure, these advances have been due to experimentation.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. This revolution has produced the most powerful and diverse spur to innovation of any in modern times.