Academy Quote by John F. Kennedy

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this…

— Thomas Jefferson

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes…

— Charles Babbage

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

— Marie Curie

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

Getting elected to the National Academy of Sciences is the ultimate peer recognition.

— Moshe Vardi

America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars…

— Norm Coleman

I think it is important to have a balance of science and arts to be able to be accessible in either fields.

— Ann Makosinski

Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect…

— Oliver Goldsmith

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several…

— Charles Babbage

Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have…

— John F. Kennedy

I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual…

— Derek Barton

Science is international: the best scientists can come from anywhere; they can come from next door, or they can come from a small village…

— John O'Keefe