Karen Armstrong Quotes

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.

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's it. That's what we do as scientists or technologists.

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

I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.

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.

In those parts of the world where learning and science have prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.

Never bet against science!

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

Education is the basis of creative thought: the ability to go beyond asking why to why not.

The way to solve problems in the world is to become scientists and technologists and build things that haven't been built before and discover things that people really don't know about.

Without science, there would be no such hope.

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

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 must not be afraid to push boundaries; instead, we should leverage our science and our technology, together with our creativity and our curiosity, to solve the world's problems.

My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.

Great scientific contributions have been techniques.

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.

Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.

He who does not know how to create should not know.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.