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 secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

That’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it’s not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can’t solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.

I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

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 read the ‚Old Testament‘ all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read ‚The Origin Of Species‘, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.