Jessica Alba Quotes

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

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

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.

After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.

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.

A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.

My efforts are focused on ensuring that CERN maintains a leading role in the fields of science, technology and education, and that it continues to be a place that unites scientists from around the world.

The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan.

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

One can not impede scientific progress.

CERN is a centre of scientific excellence and a source of pride and inspiration for physicists from all over the world, a cradle for technology and innovation, and a shining concrete example of scientific cooperation and peace.

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

I love science, and I believe in it. I have a faith that science can solve problems and make the world a better place.

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

There are many men now living who were in the habit of using the age-old expression: 'It is as impossible as flying.' The discoveries in physical science, the triumphs in invention, attest the value of the process of trial and error. In large measure, these advances have been due to experimentation.

Science extends an invitation to all nations.

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

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilization.

The decline in funding for the physical sciences has put our Nation's capabilities for scientific innovation at risk.

It is the great glory as well as the great threat of science that everything which is in principle possible can be done if the intention to do it is sufficiently resolute.