These science and technology quotes will inspire you. Science and technology, science encompasses the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment, and technology is the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging science and technology quotes, science and technology sayings, and science and technology proverbs.
Best Science and Technology Quotes
- “The intelligent use of science and technology are the tools with which to achieve a new direction.” ~ Jacque Fresco
- “Science and technology can solve all the world’s problems, and historically it has been shown to make the world better and better.” ~ Zoltan Istvan
- “The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.” ~ Edward Teller
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“Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
- “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” ~ Isaac Asimov
- “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“Humankind has the science and technology to destroy itself or to provide prosperity for all. But while science offers us these opportunities, science will not make that choice for us. Only the moral power of a world acting as a community can” ~ Margaret Beckett
- “The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.” ~ Claude Levi-Strauss
- “Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.” ~ Adam Smith
- “A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.” ~ Robert Trout
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“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” ~ Carl Sagan
- “We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.” ~ Carl Sagan
- “The science and technology which have advanced man safely into space have brought about startling medical advances for man on earth. Out of space research have come new knowledge, techniques and instruments which have enabled some bedridden invalids to walk, the totally deaf to hear, the voiceless to talk, and, in the foreseeable future, may even make it possible for the blind to “see.”” ~ Hubertus Strughold
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“If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.” ~ Omar N. Bradley
- “You innovate in ways that stoke your economy. Because innovations in science and technology are the engines of 21st century economies.” ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
- “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.” ~ E. O. Wilson
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“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.” ~ B. F. Skinner
- “We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” ~ Carl Sagan
- “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” ~ Pablo Picasso
- “Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.” ~ Carl Sagan
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“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.” ~ Dennis Gabor
- “Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.” ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
- “Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” ~ Aldous Huxley
- “Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.” ~ Henri Poincare
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“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.” ~ Carl Sagan
- “Technology is driving us together. In many ways we are becoming like one family. With the global threats resulting from science and technology, the whole of humankind now needs protection. We have to extend our loyalty to the whole of the human race.” ~ Joseph Rotblat
- “I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
- “Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.” ~ Wernher von Braun
- “I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.” ~ Sarah Zettel
- “We would destroy ourselves and the planet if no change happens, because of the amplification of the egoic state through science and technology.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
- “Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.” ~ Edwin Powell Hubble
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“There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.” ~ Isaac Asimov
- “Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.” ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
- “Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of human endeavor put together.” ~ Mario Pei
- “This is also the age of science and technology in which human beings have progressed beyond the stage of blind faith.” ~ Nirmala Srivastava
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“We have guided missiles and misguided men.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” ~ Arthur C. Clarke
- “The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others.” ~ Masaru Ibuka
- “I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
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“The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.” ~ Thomas Sowell
- “This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man – if man is not enslaved by it.” ~ Jonas Salk
- “Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it.” ~ Max Frisch
- “To restore America’s competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.” ~ Barack Obama
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“Science knows the qualities of electricity, but not its real essence.” ~ Mahmoud Mohammed Taha
- “We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.” ~ Douglas Adams
- “Not all bits have equal value.” ~ Carl Sagan
- “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny…'” ~ Isaac Asimov
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“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.” ~ Richard P. Feynman
- “It is primarily through the growth of science and technology that man has acquired those attributes which distinguish him from the animals, which have indeed made it possible for him to become human.” ~ Arthur Compton
- “I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others… I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
- “The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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“All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.” ~ Carl Sagan
- “A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” ~ Max Planck
- “If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.” ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
- “The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.” ~ E. F. Schumacher
- “Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire, is genuinely new: Culture, like science and technology, grows by accretion, each new creator building on the works of those who came before. Overprotection stifles the very creative forces it’s supposed to nurture.” ~ Alex Kozinski
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“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.” ~ William Lawrence Bragg
- “Economics and a reliance on science and technology to solve our problems has led to an unsustainable situation where continued growth in consumption is required for governments and business to be considered successful. This is a form of insanity. Economics is at the heart of our destructive ways and our faith in it has blinded us” ~ David Suzuki
- “In science it often happens that scientists say, “You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken…”” ~ Carl Sagan
- “Anybody can use science and technology without fundamentally altering his own frame of mind which governs how they are used.” ~ David Bohm
- “Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.” ~ J. G. Ballard
