Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

In science your competitors are your colleagues.

Globalization is going to bring us closer and closer together across nations and technology you can't stop.

One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.

At the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, we have long had a tradition of close cooperation between physicists and technicians.

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 development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in which they live.

Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.

One can not impede scientific progress.

The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

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

Science is a we, not an I. We are so used to star athletes, star entertainers, star politicians, but that is not science.

The pace and demands in any field, be it genetics, nanotechnology or cosmology, can only be met with increased international cooperation and collaborative projects.

Without science, there would be no such hope.

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

Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.

We must not be afraid to push boundaries; instead, we should leverage our science and our technology, together with our creativity and our curiosity, to solve the world's problems.

Together we are building a new Mexico.

The United States is still an enormous generator of innovation, from which other nations have long benefitted. But we now also have the opportunity to benefit from innovation taking place around the world.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

As Scots - like everyone else - we live in an increasingly inter-connected world that demands shared solutions to shared problems. Walking away from others have never been our way. Walking with others has been our heritage and still represents our best future.

One of the lessons I have learned in the different stages of my career is that science is not done alone. It is through talking with others and sharing that progress is made.

Science is the one culture that's truly global - protons, proteins and Pythagoras's Theorem are the same from China to Peru. It should transcend all barriers of nationality. It should straddle all faiths, too.

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.

You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.