Timothy Noah Quotes

Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.

Creative universities are bedrock of every developed nation's S&T strategy.

To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills.

Where the quest for knowledge is relatively, and now almost absolutely, unrestrained, the public benefit will be great, especially where the certainty of the law ensures that knowledge is rewarded. This is exactly the combination that is the foundation of wealth-creation.

In this 21st century world, some of our country's most significant exports and imports extend beyond goods and services: They also include innovation, knowledge, discovery, and healing.

Israel produces more conceptual products than any other country.

Boston is known for its innovation.

My passion for innovation and my interest in the 'business of science' has seen Biocon commercialize many innovative platforms and products.

Science is inextricably linked to our economy. It has been for the last 50 years and it will be for the next 50 years.

Brazil must increase the value of its human capital by investing in knowledge and technology.

Ideas are what power our economy.

People want development, modern thinking. They want to encourage and support research in agriculture and other fields.

Britain is the ideas factory of the world and has huge potential to benefit from the next technological revolution. Our future lies in being a high skilled, high innovation, free enterprise nation.

The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge.

I think in America we have to get back to being the best educated general citizenry in the world and make sure we do not lose our lead in research, if we're to have a leadership position in the world.

Knowledge is our most powerful engine of production.

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.

Learning from the American experience, governments around the world have developed national innovation policies and programs to accelerate their economic prosperity and to help their citizens and companies compete globally.

Intellectual capital will always trump financial capital.

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.

No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.

We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery.

As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.

As the new endogenous growth theory suggests, TFP growth is closely related to accumulation of the intangible capitals, such as human capital and research and development.

Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.