Barack Obama Quotes

Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your nation tomorrow, then you'd better rethink how you allocate taxes to fund science. The federal budget needs to recognize this.

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

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 …

The ... progress of improvement and discovery ought not to be overlooked. ... Philosophy already directs her finger at sources of inexhaustible power. ... We are on the eve of mechanical discoveries still greater than any which have yet appeared.

With 5% of the world’s population, the United States employs about a third of all the research and development workers in the world.

The spending in science and technology need to be to increased.

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.

The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.

Science plays a huge role in our lives. We're surrounded by technology, we depend on it.

Speaking as just simply an American who cares about the economic health of our country, I see one of the surest ways to bring wealth and prosperity to the country is to innovate in science and technology.

Science is the engine of prosperity. But you'd never know it, listening to some of the politicians. They're lawyers and businessmen, not scientists. Lawyers and businessmen massage wealth; they don't create it.

Ensuring that the US continues to lead the world in science and technology will be a central priority for my administration.

Today's science is tomorrow's technology.

Science is the only savior.

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.

Today's advanced STEM graduate could be tomorrow's world-class, world-changing scientist.

The world cries out for global rules that respect the achievements of science.

Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

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

We live in an increasingly technological world where the issues are quite complex and based on some complicated science.

What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? It's the ticket to solving the world's problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isn't for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world?

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.

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