Ben Carson Quotes

Whatever science fiction movies we watch now, we can make the technology real in two days. What we can do is not important. What we should do is more important.

I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.

One can not impede scientific progress.

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

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

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 …

It is the great glory as well as the great threat of science that everything which is in principle possible can be done if the intention to do it is sufficiently resolute.

Science, engineering, and technology discovers and invents new ways of doing things - but it doesn't dictate how we should do them.

If we choose to ignore science and refuse to fund important scientific research, we voluntarily cede our place as a world leader in innovation.

Without science, there would be no such hope.

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

I'm all in favor of looking deeply into as much as we possibly can. I'm not afraid of knowledge... With all new technology, weapons inevitably emerge... Evil comes out of the human heart. It doesn't come out of nature.

I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

I think I succeeded in getting the Egyptian people excited about the importance of science, and this is the only way Egypt can get out of this dark ages.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

The strength of a nation is its knowledge.

Our security and independence require that more young people devote themselves to science and research.

With so much power, science will inevitably receive strong criticism. It comes with success. It’s entirely appropriate. Take it as a complement. And get over it.

There are lots of things that science will enable us to do that we shouldn’t do.

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

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

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

We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values.