Burton Richter Quotes

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

Ensuring that the US continues to lead the world in science and technology will be a central priority for my administration.

Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

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.

Ultimately Halcyon needs the greatest scientists and engineers in the world to succeed in its mission.

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.

One can not impede scientific progress.

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.

REVOLUTION IN SCIENCE.

The United States needs to be a leader in scientific research.

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

Speaking as just simply an American who cares about the economic health of our country, I see one of the surest ways to bring wealth and prosperity to the country is to innovate in science and technology.

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

Without science, there would be no such hope.

Industrial Society is not merely one containing 'industry,' large-scale productive units capable of supplying man's material needs in a way which can eliminate poverty: it is also a society in which knowledge plays a part wholly different from that which it played in earlier social forms, and which indeed possesses a quite different type of knowledge. Modern science is inconceivable outside an industrial society: but modern industrial society is equally inconceivable without modern science. Roughly, science is the mode of cognition of industrial society, and industry is the ecology of science.

The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.

What's important for all of us as chip companies is to keep the innovation going: putting out new products, figuring out how we connect these complex systems.

Innovation, especially in America, is continuing at a breakneck pace, even in areas facing substantial political or regulatory headwinds. The advances in health care in particular are breathtaking - so many selfless souls are working to advance science, and this is heartening.

Manchester has always been a massively innovative city, loads of great scientific findings have come from Manchester. The first computer in the world was there and took up a whole building. So Manchester has always been very innovative.

One of the interesting and exciting things about my job is watching technological ground being pioneered.

If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death.

Through scientific discovery and technological innovation, we enlist the forces of the natural world to solve many of the uniquely human problems we face - feeding and providing energy to agrowing population, improving human health, taking responsibility for protecting the environment and the global ecosystem, and ensuring our own Nation's security. Scientific discoveries inspire and enrich us, teaching us about the mysteries of life and the nature of the world.