Bill Gates Quotes

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

In recent times, modern science has developed to give mankind, for the first time in the history of the human race, a way of securing a more abundant life which does not simply consist in taking away from someone else.... Science really creates wealth and opportunity which did not exist before.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

Science and the many benefits that science has produced have played a crucial part in our history and produced vast improvements to human welfare.

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

Innovation requires a novel approach to scientific problem solving, higher level of resource commitments over much longer time durations.

It used to be that almost all innovation came from the U.S. and a small number of other developed countries. That's no longer the case, and as China and India grow, it's changing even more. Expect a lot more Chinese and Indian Nobel prizes in the future.

Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

Well into the 20th century, scholars viewed economic advances as resulting from commercial innovations enabled by the discoveries of scientists - discoveries that come from outside the economy and out of the blue.

Japan is a well-educated, technological society. It is a free society, protects intellectual property.

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.

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

All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well.

The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.

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

In a world being transformed by technology, good science is vital to good diplomacy.

Machines and their development provide the greatest opportunity in the whole history of mankind to improve the lot of the individual human being.

Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance our profit and maximize our pleasure.

There are those who say that such research should be stopped by law, alleging that man’s destructive powers are already large enough. So no doubt that the more elderly and ape-like of our prehistoric ancestors objected to the innovation of cooked food and pointed out the grave danger of the use of the newly discovered agency, fire.

We live in a dynamic time, where the rate of change and the rate of innovation are very high. It’s not equal in all segments or sectors of the economy, but we are seeing a lot of innovation in certain sectors, and I expect that to continue.

New technologies are often met with skepticism. But if the world is to continue the remarkable progress of the past few decades, it is vital that scientists, subject to safety and ethics guidelines, be encouraged to continue taking advantage of such promising tools as CRISPR.

Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.

I have always believed that technology drives human civilization's endeavor and progress.