Rainer Weiss Quotes

If I could snap my fingers and do one thing in science, I would get more funding for basic science. But the level of funding that needs to be done is not on the order of millions, like the cost of the Breakthrough Prizes. It's billions to tens of billions.

Fundamental science that may not achieve results must be supported at the state level.

I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research.

It takes years to realize the multiple benefits of science; without adequate, sustained funding for research, the careers of many bright, young scientists may come to a screeching halt.

The strength of the scientific establishment in any country is related to its general level of education, not only in supplying large numbers of eager minds for further training, but also in ensuring a public opinion that holds science in esteem and approves financial support.

America may say that it values science, but it sure as hell doesn't want to pay for it.

We need to show why the government should be funding science and how that funding delivers.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

The tension between public and private science is powerful.

Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.

The currencies of science are discoveries and ideas; the rewards are the excitement of going where nobody has been before and, if one is inclined to such things, the kudos of peer acclaim, plus funds to do more research.

There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.

Students and postdoctoral fellows largely depend on the support of the public sector to finance the training and research that will make them world-renowned scientists.

Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them.

The decline in funding for the physical sciences has put our Nation's capabilities for scientific innovation at risk.

Who does science determines what science gets done.

The United States needs to be a leader in scientific research.

So now, if we don't fund the physical sciences, where will the Next Big Thing come from?

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

By the time we made the discovery in 2015, the National Science Foundation had put close to $1.1 billion into it.

The most important thing is to recognize that research is our seed corn. It's a national security priority. It's not just a way to have enough going on that graduate students can do their Ph.D.s and scientists can publish. We have to do research, or we'll fall behind the rest of the world.

We benefited from an enlightened post-war period in the United States: Our National Institutes of Health have enthusiastically and generously supported basic research.

Today most funding for science comes through government. That means that you have to be known to be sympathetic to conclusions that are acceptable to the political classes.

I am honoured to be appointed as the first chief executive of UKRI. My ambition is to make UKRI the world's leading research and innovation public funding agency.

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