Kenneth G. Wilson Quotes

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 most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

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

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.

There is no question but … science is the weakest in the lands of Islam. The dangers of this weakness cannot be overemphasized since honorable survival of a society depends directly on strength in science and technology …

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

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

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

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

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.

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.

I'm big on the importance of science, particularly right now at this point in time when there's sort of a systematic rejection of science by a lot of people in America.

Society has come to expect that American science and engineering will contribute to the general economic and social welfare.

We will always work on technologies that are required in our market, which is India.

Avoid the spectacle of technology and instead focus on technology and science solving real problems.

There are two - parallel - universes of science. One is the actual day-to-day work of scientists, patiently researching into all parts of the world and sometimes making amazing discoveries. The other is the role science plays in the public imagination - the powerful effect it has in shaping how millions of ordinary people see the world.

We're nothing without science. Nothing.

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.

Today's science is tomorrow's technology.

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

Think of a single problem confronting the world today. Disease, poverty, global warming... If the problem is going to be solved, it is science that is going to solve it. Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do. If anyone ever cures cancer, it will be a guy with a science degree. Or a woman with a science degree.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.