Victor Francis Hess Quotes

The currencies of science are discoveries and ideas; the rewards are the excitement of going where nobody has been before and, if one is inclined to such things, the kudos of peer acclaim, plus funds to do more research.

Who does science determines what science gets done.

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

Scientific discovery requires sustained funding for decades, and politicians can destroy it in a single budget cycle.

We are all enormously indebted to the National Science Foundation of the United States and the American public for steady support over close to 50 years.

On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays?

Personally, I attach great importance to research in fundamental sciences because I believe that no applied or developmental research can do without basic research as the wellspring and driving force. But, in this world of ours, often because of material gains and immediate interests, it is easy to neglect basic research. This should be avoided.

Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because the elite makes most of the progress. You should worry about people who produce really novel inventions, not pedantic hacks.

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

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.

I am very pro-science.

Science, science is great. I love science. With any luck, it'll save us all.

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?

I do worry about the fact that science is becoming a slower process as society is becoming less patient.

Many of our advances in science and technology were seeded through government.

America may say that it values science, but it sure as hell doesn't want to pay for it.

We need to not reduce but increase our commitment to research.

Fundamental science that may not achieve results must be supported at the state level.

We must face up to a difficult paradox: The U.S. can maintain a leading position in science only by giving up its desire to be number one.

The decline of particle physics in the U.S. is really a symptom of the erratic and sometimes anti-scientific attitudes in Washington and the incompetence of Congress in managing science.

Historically, science and society have gone separate ways, although society has provided the funds for science to grow, and in return, science has given society all the material things it enjoys.

By the time we made the discovery in 2015, the National Science Foundation had put close to $1.1 billion into it.

We should not be a party that is opposed to science.

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.