Thomas Sowell Quotes

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

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

The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.

Science, which has transformed the material world, gives man the power of transforming himself.

There is no question but … science is the weakest in the lands of Islam. The dangers of this weakness cannot be overemphasized since honorable survival of a society depends directly on strength in science and technology …

When I contemplate the immense advances in sciences and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my life, I look forward with confidence to equal advances by the present generation, and have no doubt they will consequently be as much wiser than we have been as we than our fathers were, and they than the burners of witches

While science and technology play critical roles in sustaining modern civilization, they are not part of our culture in the sense that they are not commonly studied or well comprehended. Neither the potential nor the limitations of science are understood so that what can be achieved and what is beyond reach are not comprehended.

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

The ... progress of improvement and discovery ought not to be overlooked. ... Philosophy already directs her finger at sources of inexhaustible power. ... We are on the eve of mechanical discoveries still greater than any which have yet appeared.

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

... science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

It is not clear to anyone, least of all the practitioners, how science and technology in their headlong course do or should influence ethics and law, education and government, art and social philosophy, religion and the life of the affections. Yet science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history.

I consider myself fundamentally more of an environmentalist than many of the environmental groups. We have to come up with new sources of food, new sources of water, new sources of energy. Trying to ignore leading-edge science and technology as a means of getting there is an ostrich approach of burying your head in the sand.

Complexity and innovation are not always good things.

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

I've been impressed, obviously, with what Israel has done over the years, as it related to technology, agriculture, research in general.

The spending in science and technology need to be to increased.

Creative universities are bedrock of every developed nation's S&T strategy.

Science and technology are a propellant for building a thriving country, and the happiness of the people and the future of the country hinge on their development.

The strength of self-reliance and self-development is that of science and technology, and the shortcut to implementing the five-year strategy is to give importance and precedence to science and technology.

Science and technology are going to be the basis for many of the solutions to social problems.

I am keen to serve one-sixth of the world's population where the miracles of science and technology would multiply manifold for betterment of mankind.

Science and technology are the keys to both our longevity and our demise. Our entire existence on this planet is a double-edged sword.

Looking to the future I see in the further acceleration of science continuous jobs for our workers. Science will cure unemployment.

Science has gone a long way toward helping man to free himself from the burden of hard labor; yet, science itself is not a liberator. It creates means, not goals. It is up to men to utilize those means to achieve reasonable goals.