Accounts Quote by Elihu Thomson

“More than ever before, it was assumed that the methods of natural science could be—and should be—used to understand and solve the problems facing…

— Laura J. Snyder

We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating…

— Adam Savage

Science ... looks skeptically at all claims to knowledge, old and new. It teaches not blind obedience to those in authority but to vigorous…

— Carl Sagan

“In a technological world facing many global problems, everyone needs to have a basic understanding of science. And knowing where we came from and…

— Wyken Seagrave

Teaching is the human thing, in terms of building the kids' self-confidence, so if we take the broad ways that we want to see…

— Bill Gates

“Science is thus a paradigm for how we ought to gain knowledge—not the particular methods or institutions of science but its value system, namely…

— Steven Pinker

Our schools offer no conception of the scientific process of discovery. They do not encourage creative thought, in fact, they stifle it through too…

— Anonymous

In order that the relations between science and the age may be what they ought to be, the world at large must be made…

— William Jay Youmans

Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the…

— John Dewey

I would teach the world that science is the best way to understand the world and that for any set of observations, there is…

— Lewis Wolpert

Science has the potential to solve all kinds of problems, but it depends on what a society wants to accomplish.

— George M. Whitesides

“My suggestion to young people is that not only should they read about the history of science and engineering, but that they should read…

— Warren M. Washington