Basic research Quote by Barack Obama

The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this new member…

— James R Newman

An astrolabe is relatively unknown in today's world. But, at the time, in the 13th century, it was the gadget of the day. It…

— Tom Wujec

Einstein had two new predictions from general relativity. One was that light would bend. That was tested in 1919, and basically, he was proven…

— Barry Barish

What was done is measure directly, with exquisitely sensitive instruments, gravitational waves predicted about 100 years ago by Albert Einstein. These waves are a…

— Rainer Weiss

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and…

— Simon Newcomb

Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury’s orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from what Newton’s…

— Brian Greene

The pattern of things was that each of the research students would be doing some particular experiment on the accelerator, often involving the building…

— John Henry Carver

“After long reflection in solitude and meditation, I suddenly had the idea, during the year 1923, that the discovery made by Einstein in 1905…

— Louis de Broglie

Newton supposed that all matter attracted other matter inversely according to the square of the distance; and the hypothesis was found to account for…

— James McCosh

Space in general gave us GPS - that's not specifically NASA, but it's investments in space.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“From Galileo’s discovery of the principle of the pendulum, a totally new concept of the design of timepieces evolved. But what proved even more…

— William Bixby

Scientists use satellites to track weather, map ice sheet melting, detect diseases, show ecosystem change... the list goes on and on. I think nearly…

— Sarah Parcak