Barack Obama Quotes

What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? It's the ticket to solving the world's problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isn't for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world?

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

Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.

There is a great deal of innovation occurring in Colorado, with some of the most brilliant minds and creative startup companies in the world formulating climate-change solutions right in our backyard.

We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both

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.

What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two.

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

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.

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

Pollution Prevention, Not Polluter Protection Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress.

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

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

The strength of self-reliance and self-development is that of science and technology, and the shortcut to implementing the five-year strategy is to give importance and precedence to science and technology.

Without science, there would be no such hope.

We can't impede progress in the name of environmental action that yields little for the environment and even less for our people.. and we should look at the environment as an economic opportunity.

If you're a politician it's very useful to say that we can have economic growth and at the same time green the economy, but writers just have to face up to the fact that there are some fundamental tensions between the economic order and the biological order.

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

I want to live in a city where the future is being mapped out.

Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.

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.

I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.

If we can come up with innovations and train young people to take on new jobs, and if we can switch to clean energy, I think we have the capacity to build this world not dependent on fossil-fuel. I think it will happen, and it won't destroy economy.