Bill Maris Quotes

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.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

One can not impede scientific progress.

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

California is the greatest beacon of opportunity the world has ever known. But we didn't get here through years of political seniority - we built it through acts of audacity.

For a country like ours that needs to stay ahead of the world or go under, we must do great, ambitious things - like going to the moon - to survive.

I am keen to serve one-sixth of the world's population where the miracles of science and technology would multiply manifold for betterment of mankind.

Science is telling us that the reason people die is not because some god said so or because the laws of nature mandate it. People always die because of technical problems. And every technical problem has, in principle, a technical solution.

Science and technology are the keys to both our longevity and our demise. Our entire existence on this planet is a double-edged sword.

I never viewed technology as a replacement for the human experience. I viewed it as something that could liberate the human experience.

Looking to the future I see in the further acceleration of science continuous jobs for our workers. Science will cure unemployment.

Science has gone a long way toward helping man to free himself from the burden of hard labor; yet, science itself is not a liberator. It creates means, not goals. It is up to men to utilize those means to achieve reasonable goals.

Freedom [is] the first-born daughter of science

I'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die.

The old rules may say we can’t protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, we’ve always used new technologies - we’ve used science; we’ve used research and development and discovery to make the old rules obsolete.

It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back. And it’s fine if you as an adult want to run around pretending or claiming that you don’t believe in evolution, but if we educate a generation of people who don’t believe in science, that’s a recipe for disaster. We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time. We live today in an era of discovery that far outshadows the discoveries of the New World five hundred years ago.

Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.

That's why I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete. I think that's one of Apple's challenges, really. When two young people walk in with the next thing, are we going to embrace it and say this is fantastic? Are you going to be willing to drop our models, or are we going to explain it away? I think we'll do better, because we're completely aware of it and we make it a priority.

It is the great beauty of our science, chemistry, that advancement in it, whether in a degree great or small, instead of exhausting the subjects of research, opens the doors to further and more abundant knowledge, overflowing with beauty and utility.

I remain hopeful that science, innovation and kindness will come to the fore as things become more and more tense in parts of the world. I think what you are seeing in the world right now is kind of a leveling or an attempt to level the playing field.

There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would use science wisely.