Karl Popper Quotes

The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.

The most important thing is to recognize that research is our seed corn. It's a national security priority. It's not just a way to have enough going on that graduate students can do their Ph.D.s and scientists can publish. We have to do research, or we'll fall behind the rest of the world.

If we choose to ignore science and refuse to fund important scientific research, we voluntarily cede our place as a world leader in innovation.

In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas- and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed.

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.

May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.

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.

A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths.

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

Within the last fifty years, the extraordinary growth of every department of physical science has spread among us mental food of so nutritious and stimulating a character that a new ecdysis seems imminent.

Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest.

The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.

In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.

The progression of physical science is much more connected with your prosperity than is usually imagined. You owe to experimental philosophy some of the most important and peculiar of your advantages. It is not by foreign conquests chiefly that you are become great, but by a conquest of nature in your own country.

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organisation-and, trust me, they are-managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with those ideas.

We need innovation. We need great ideas that can be simply and effectively produced all over the place.

Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.

Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.

If you pursue enrichment and growth, you must increase your references by pursuing ideas and experiences that wouldn't be a part of your life if you didn't consciously seek them out.

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find the inner motivation to search for new ideas on your own. With any luck at all, you’ll never need to take an idea and squeeze a punchline out of it, but as bright, creative people, you’ll be called upon to generate ideas and solutions all your lives. Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.