Rex Tillerson Quotes

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

Who brings tomorrow into the present if not the scientists, technicians and engineers?

Without science, there would be no such hope.

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

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Modern civilization depends on science …

Innovation is the key to the future, but basic research is the key to future innovation.

At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies ever invented by humans to feed and protect themselves depend on a relentless commitment to hard-nosed empiricism: you cannot assume that your arrowheads will pierce the hide of a bison or that your raft will float just because the omens are propitious and you have been given supernatural reassurance that they will. You have to be sure.

I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

Great scientific contributions have been techniques.

Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.

One can not impede scientific progress.

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

Our security and independence require that more young people devote themselves to science and research.

Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.

People don't realize how many aspects of our lives are touched in one way or another by not just the discoveries, the technological breakthroughs, but the process of science.

The way to solve problems in the world is to become scientists and technologists and build things that haven't been built before and discover things that people really don't know about.

I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me.

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Science is facts.

Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.