Richard P. Feynman Quotes

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.

Sciences evolve.

So, we've gone from covered wagons to going to the moon in just under 100 years. For all the centuries and thousands of years before us, people walked or rode horses, cows, camels or whatever. This so-called modern era, from the late 19th century through now, has been the period of the most amazing development, discovery, innovation and acceleration of change that humans have ever experienced. And it hasn't slowed down yet.

Ultimately Halcyon needs the greatest scientists and engineers in the world to succeed in its mission.

I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

The future of society is 100% dependent on scientific advances.

One can not impede scientific progress.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

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

Most inventions are based on some prior history.

The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic but technological-technologies that flowed directly from advances in basic science. Clearly, no scientist better represents those advances than Albert Einstein: TIME's Person of the Century.

The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.

Without science, there would be no such hope.

Science has grown frightfully audacious in these days -- swift-footed, ponderous, careering over her iron ways with unslacking pace. This rampant dragon, on which I am mounted, see how he bends his once stiff neck to his rider, champing his checked bit and pawing the dust, impatient to leap around the globe. Genius is prescient, foresees its own might. Man is striving through these iron-ribbed, steam-sped hippogriffs, to recover his lost ubiquity and omnipotence, and threatens soon to grasp in his ample palm, and fix with flaming eye-ball, the elemental forces!

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

It's the Twentieth Century ... no more miracles.

Science is the future of mankind.

Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools".

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale from the Americans.

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.

We've had the Iron Age, the Stone Age, this is the pissin' about age.

The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.