Margaret Atwood Quotes

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

I love technology, and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things, too.

I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

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

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

Innovation is the key to the future, but basic research is the key to future innovation.

Who brings tomorrow into the present if not the scientists, technicians and engineers?

Engineering or Technology is the making of things that did not previously exist, whereas science is the discovering of things that have long existed.

Science, engineering, and technology discovers and invents new ways of doing things - but it doesn't dictate how we should do them.

From the radio and the world wide web, to the steam engine and penicillin, for generations the U.K. has been a world-leader in science and research.

When I started on my research, I never expected I could invent the LED and laser diode.

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.

Great scientific contributions have been techniques.

I was very eager to produce an oscillator for short waves. I was doing science with microwaves, and I would get down to a few millimetres in wavelength, but I wanted to get shorter wavelengths; I wanted to get into the infra-red because I saw there was a lot more to be done there.

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

That's the nice thing about doing research. Whatever you do is novel, so you always have this sense of novelty, even if you are only using a new gadget.

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

Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.