Century Quote by Derek J. de Solla Price

Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world's population emerge from miserable uncertainty and debilitating terror.

— Michael Moorcock

I don't know if we will really have a doomsday for human beings, but if we did, to me, it wouldn't be an unjust…

— Peter Heller

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

— John B. S. Haldane

If scientists can't communicate with the public, with policy makers, with one another, the future is going to be held back. We're not going…

— Alan Alda

Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have produced long-since…

— Al Gore

“One hundred and fifty years of science have proved more explosive than five thousand years of prescientific culture. It would be absurd to suppose…

— Bertrand Russell

Making two possibilities a reality. Predicting the future of things we all know. Fighting off the diseased programming Of centuries, centuries, centuries, centuries. Science…

— Serj Tankian

This brief century of ours is arguably the most significant one in the history of our universe. We'll have the technology either to self-destruct,…

— Max Tegmark

The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man will have…

— Benjamin Franklin

We are just a blip. I found it very interesting when Clive [Oppenheimer] interviewed the Ethiopian scientists and asked them, "Do we have another…

— Werner Herzog

Science is as yet in its infancy, and we can foretell little of the future save that the thing that has not been is…

— John B. S. Haldane

In our lifetime, we're going to see fifty percent of the world's species go extinct. We're already seeing this radical rise in the world's…

— Anohni