Ramez Naam Quotes

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest in those fields is not regenerated soon, the comfortable lifestyle to which Americans have become accustomed will draw to a rapid close.

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.

Unfortunately, in the environment, I don't see as much willingness to invest heavily in R&D as I do in consumer technology. And that's a pity.

Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.

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

A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.

That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.

It is widely known, even in still illiterate sections of the world, that, thanks to the amazing advances in science and technology, mankind, still growing in numbers, is capable of assuring each human being the minimum of goods required by his dignity as a person.

NASA feeds the fuel of the technological furnace of America.

I think the state’s role in the evolution of technology is best aimed at fueling adventures of the mind into the impossible reaches. That is very long range, and it’s the sort of thing that almost no companies have the wherewithal to contemplate.

One of the main reasons that we have made so much progress in so many technological areas in recent years is that many people care about those areas.

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

We need to be at the forefront of technological development again.

The government is right to recognise the importance of science and technology, but I think it is a mistake to ringfence funds.

R&D has been an obsession in Europe for many, many years. There is this magical number which many governments aspire to do, and that is to invest at least three percent of GDP in research and development. When you look at the number, it's a composite of private and public investment in R&D.

Thanks to quality education, Israel is one of the most advanced countries in the world .. Israel is advancing in high-tech even more than other developed countries.

On the supply side, for innovation, you'd say, go look at those R&D budgets, and they haven't moved in the last 20 years. In the case of the US - which is the majority of R&D funding across every category you can name: health, energy, whatever - it's been about $5 billion a year from the Department of Energy.

The intelligent use of science and technology are the tools with which to achieve a new direction.

There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand, there have started into life industrial and scientific forces which no epoch of former human history had ever suspected. On the other hand, there exist symptoms of decay, far surpassing the horrors recorded of the latter times of the Roman empire. In our days everything seems pregnant with its contrary.

If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.

R&D generally has been a bipartisan thing, because in the IT space, in the medical space, the U.S., the benefits to ourselves and the world and our economy have been very, very clear. I'm hopeful we can make a very strong case there. Energy is actually harder; it takes more time to get a product, but if you do it's a very, very big market and the constraints of doing that in a clean way are more obvious all the time.

There is no more discovery. Not since the beginning of this century. There are new gadgets. New important gadgets.

If you can't invent the future, the next best thing is to fund it.

Our scientists all the more occupy advanced positions in the development of world science. By the example of their successes in the field of atomic energy, our scientists and technicians have vividly shown how much the increased might of the Soviet state and the further growth of its international authority depends on their efforts and practical successes.