Future Quotes
11558 quotes by 6175 authors
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Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is now widely realized that nearly all the 'classical' problems of molecular biology have either been solved or will be solved in the next…
— Sydney Brenner
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While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the…
— Andrew Carnegie
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I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far away from the boundaries of…
— Johannes Kepler
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We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat…
— Barack Obama
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If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you…
— Tom Stoppard
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In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary…
— Charles Darwin
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Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of a large continent, yet, as we may predict the future occurrence of such catastrophes, we are authorized…
— Charles Lyell
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Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception of hitherto unexplored regions, formed…
— Werner Heisenberg
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Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of…
— Willis R. Whitney
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For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no single event makes…
— Barack Obama
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In every section of the entire area where the word science may properly be applied, the limiting factor is a human one. We shall have…
— James Bryant Conant
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Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were abandoning the study…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery ... As soon as an Analytical Engine exists,…
— Charles Babbage
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The man of true genius never lives before his time, he never undertakes impossibilities, and always embarks on his enterprise at the suitable place and…
— Joseph Henry
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To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do…
— Victor Hugo
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One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.
— John Dewey
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My vision for the future? Two things: to make credit a human right so that each individual human being will have the opportunity to take…
— Muhammad Yunus
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Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics of the future…
— Paul Dirac
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