Leo Szilard Quotes

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

In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years - are still in their very earliest stages.

Scientific Progress goes boink?

Without science, there would be no such hope.

You can be sure that over the next 10 years, you'll see something that you did not think was possible.

Science is the future of mankind.

The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

If you were a kid in 1955, you would pick up a copy of 'Popular Science' and it would say, 'This is the kind of car you're going to be driving in five years or in 20 years you'll be able to take a jet plane from New York to London in four hours,' or something like that. We actually got used to the idea that the future's going to be different.

What seems impossible today, may half a century hence have become commonplace.

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

When you're changing centuries, people get curious about the future.

While I can't tell you what people are going to do for work 100 years from now, the future doesn't hinge on my imagination.

Everyone who's rational should have an interest in science. The future of our planet depends on our understanding of science... It's something I value immensely.

So, we've gone from covered wagons to going to the moon in just under 100 years. For all the centuries and thousands of years before us, people walked or rode horses, cows, camels or whatever. This so-called modern era, from the late 19th century through now, has been the period of the most amazing development, discovery, innovation and acceleration of change that humans have ever experienced. And it hasn't slowed down yet.

In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

I don't know what will happen 100 years from now.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but it's got a long time.

You know that clicker? It's going to change the world more than any other thing.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

The future is now.