Areas Quote by Michael Tanner

“Interest in academic system-building is dead; however, greater are the efforts by which every educated person seeks to draw the guiding strand of his…

— Ivan Kireyevsky

Just as our roads and bridges are overdue for investment, so is the infrastructure for scientific research; that is, the body of scientific thought…

— Oren Etzioni

“THE FIRST STEP of forecasting the future requires a trip to the fringes of science, technology, design, and society,”

— Amy Webb

Science, as well as technology, will in the near and in the farther future increasingly turn from problems of intensity, substance, and energy, to…

— John von Neumann

[T]he history of science has proved that fundamental research is the lifeblood of individual progress and that the ideas that lead to spectacular advances…

— Edward Victor Appleton

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

— Steve Jobs

As I visualize it, the business of the future will be a scientific, social and economic unit. It will be vigorously creative in pure…

— Edwin Land

“another obstacle to educating innovators in universities is the lack of respect for interdisciplinary inquiry, practical knowledge, and applied learning. Discipline-based, in-depth knowledge is…

— Tony Wagner

“In order for a field or discipline to progress and mature, it needs to reach a point where it can thoughtfully reflect on its…

— Gene Kim

To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.

— Yann Martel

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

— Fred Saberhagen

We focus on building innovation and inventing technology futures and we figure that it will take care of the rest. So far, it's done…

— Philippe Kahn