Science Technology Quotes

We need all hands on deck, and that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny…’

The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture – religions, justice, trade, the arts, science, technology.

Today, over half of China’s undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America’s undergraduates pursue these schools.

I hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? Math? Why would I ever need this? Little did I realize that music was also about science, technology, engineering and mathematics, all rolled into one.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago – at least over 30 years ago – to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

Companies want to innovate. Companies that don’t innovate wither on the vine. The connection between STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and the financial stability of a nation is what needs to established.

The earth, the sea and air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology, and education can be the ally of every nation.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.

Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it.

What is most needed right now is evolving human consciousness. Without that, science, technology, development, everything will go waste.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.

All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

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

Television won’t last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we’ve made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.

In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

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

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.