Cold war Quote by Thomas Gold

Although the U.S.-Soviet rivalry was global in scope, its center of gravity was the Iron Curtain in Europe, where both sides had massive armies…

— John Mearsheimer

“when the old empire began to rot at the fringes, it could be considered that science, as science, had failed the outer worlds. To…

— Isaac Asimov

It was very depressing to realize that, when looking around for regimes that have systematically corrupted science within the past century or so, three…

— John Grant

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much…

— Carl Sagan

I think it's important that science just doesn't stay within narrow boundaries.

— Sean M. Carroll

You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations…

— E. P. Thompson

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false

— Clifford Geertz

“Science has eliminated distance,” Melquíades proclaimed. “In a short time, man will be able to see what is happening in any place in the…

— Gabriel García Márquez

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists…

— James Lovelock

The science world has no such coherence, cohesion or cooperation. It's a bunch of academics who were raised on the idea of communication being…

— Randy Olson

One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly.

— Gerhard Schroder

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee