Peter Thiel Quotes

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

The emergence of modern science as a major new frontier of advancement that would lead, on one hand, to the discovery of new secrets of the universe, the invention of means to harness those secrets and the powers they represented, and the means to improve human health and allow humans to survive to both undertake that work and to enjoy its fruits.

There's no question that technology is extraordinarily competitive.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

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.

Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.

Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do.

One can not impede scientific progress.

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

At the present time, when railways, the telegraph, the telephone, to say nothing of other inventions and improvements of importance, have simplified communication between all lands and nations to the last degree, there is scarcely any reason to fear either distance or the estrangement of the several parts of a single whole. Practically distance is almost nonexistent. What to our ancestors appeared simply near at hand now seems to lie immediately before our eyes

Congress commissioned the first telegraph line, the railroads, the Internet. The role of the government in developing new technology is often misunderstood.

We presumably believe that most of the technological progress over the arc of humanity to date has been good. I don't see any argument to go back to 1600.

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

Science plays a huge role in our lives. We're surrounded by technology, we depend on it.

The intelligent use of science and technology are the tools with which to achieve a new direction.

Everything that you are taking advantage of, inventing and using, is still a generation or two behind when it comes to the U.S. government.

Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't have good politicians; we had some really good politicians. But then we started inventing - electricity, steam engines, microprocessors, understanding genetics and medicine and things like that. Yes, stability and education are important - I'm not taking anything away from that - but innovation is the real driver of progress.

Science is the future of mankind.

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.

Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.

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.

We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards.

The kids of today have to be better than us. We must strive to create tools adequate for human beings that come with other things that are, at least, different from those we used to have.

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.