Johnny Galecki 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.

Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; it's a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.

But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.

As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.

The decline in funding for the physical sciences has put our Nation's capabilities for scientific innovation at risk.

The United States needs to be a leader in scientific research.

Then we'll work a hundred years without physics and chemistry.

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

After World War II, scientific research in the U.S. was well supported. In the 1960s, when I came to America, the sky was the limit, and this conducive atmosphere enabled many of us to pursue esoteric research that resulted in America winning the lion's share of Nobel Prizes.

Science rules!

If I could snap my fingers and do one thing in science, I would get more funding for basic science. But the level of funding that needs to be done is not on the order of millions, like the cost of the Breakthrough Prizes. It's billions to tens of billions.

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.

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.

I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.

The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.

Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.

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

We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.

We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology.

We are a society now that is 100 percent dependent on science.

The government needs good science, and I’m not willing to abdicate the role of advising the Administration and Congress on [science] policy.

In holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.