Richard Leakey Quotes

Great scientific contributions have been techniques.

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

From the radio and the world wide web, to the steam engine and penicillin, for generations the U.K. has been a world-leader in science and research.

We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.

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.

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

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

One can not impede scientific progress.

Science is our last and greatest frontier.

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

There are many men now living who were in the habit of using the age-old expression: 'It is as impossible as flying.' The discoveries in physical science, the triumphs in invention, attest the value of the process of trial and error. In large measure, these advances have been due to experimentation.

Modern civilization depends on science …

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

Scientists are the true driving force of civilization.

Never bet against science!

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.

Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

Without science, there would be no such hope.

All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.

Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

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

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.