Julian Lincoln Simon Quotes

When you give kids the tools necessary to change their destiny, it's really empowering.

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

Nothing is more important for young people than enhancing their life chances, liberating their potential and encouraging their contribution to a globally competitive and modern economy.

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

The state does not possess trade or industry. Its wealth is the wealth of the people and the people’s wealth is not possible without the spread of these sciences amongst them so that they may know the ways for acquiring wealth.

When you stifle human potential, when you don’t invest in new ideas, it doesn’t just cut off the people who are affected. It hurts us all.

States and nations do not build wealth by storing cash in a bank vault. They build wealth by expanding human solutions to human problems in order that more and more of her people — living and yet to be born — are able to enjoy a higher quality of life.

Adding more people causes problems. But people are also the means to solve these problems. The main fuel to speed the world’s progress is our stock of knowledge; the brakes are our lack of imagination and unsound social regulations of these activities. The ultimate resource is people—especially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with liberty—who will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefits, and so inevitably they will benefit the rest of us as well.

I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.

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.

The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.

Every child, and every person, deserves a chance to make something of themselves.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

Our nation is defined by an unshakable belief that we, the people, have the ability to control our destiny. A belief that anyone can reach out and grab opportunity and create a more prosperous future for themselves, their children and their grandchildren.

My focus is mainly on education. I believe education made all the difference for me, and it is certainly going to make all the difference for other children, too.

I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.

Life can be a lot broader... when you realize one simple thing: And that is that everything around us that we call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can build your own life that other people can live in. So build a life. Don't live one. Build one. Find your opportunity, and always be sexy.

Something has to change in the world. Without change, young people will have no future.

People want development. Not everyone knows what it means. Same as jobs. Not everyone knows what a job is, but people want jobs.

I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what they're doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth.

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.

In recent times, modern science has developed to give mankind, for the first time in the history of the human race, a way of securing a more abundant life which does not simply consist in taking away from someone else.... Science really creates wealth and opportunity which did not exist before.