American Quote by Virginia Postrel

The panic over Sputnik brought many good things such as a huge increase in science funding.

— Dominic Cummings

More than fifty years ago Sputnik dramatically raised the nation's awareness of what was lacking in science and math education in America. What we…

— Katherine Paterson

In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have…

— Bill Gates

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

It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so…

— Isaac Asimov

Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.

— Seth MacFarlane

Unfortunately, there's a lot of people in high places who understand the science but don't like where the policy leads them: too much government…

— David Titley

“We scientists in particular must foster internationalism,” he said. “Unfortunately, we have had to suffer serious disappointments even among scientists in this regard.”41”

— Walter Isaacson

Our scientists all the more occupy advanced positions in the development of world science. By the example of their successes in the field of…

— Vyacheslav Molotov

We are more dependent on science and engineering than at any other time in history. However, there is plenty of evidence that far too…

— Robert Winston

The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of science in…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.

— Patricia Briggs