Science Quotes by Herbert Hoover

11 Science quotes by Herbert Hoover

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Herbert Hoover, better known for his political life, offers a handful of reflections that reveal his pragmatic view of scientific progress. These eleven snippets give a glimpse of how he linked innovation to public service.

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Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade.

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To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

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New discoveries in science and their flow of new inventions will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still…

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

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Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of…

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It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction…

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The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found…

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It is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science…

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Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the…

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Engineering is a great profession. There is the satisfaction of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science…

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Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material…

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Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.

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The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization,…

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“No one ever listened themselves out of a job.”

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Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.

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It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with crime, and…

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One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.

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You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such…

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“Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in…

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When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when…

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My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere,

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If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to put on…

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The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of…

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