“Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.” SchoolAmericaTechnologyEconomyComfortStandardsScientistSafetyMilesCompromiseFuelVehicleEngineeringGallonsMitFuel Economy Author:Ed Markey
“Otis Brawley is one of America's truly outstanding physician scientists. In How We Do Harm, he challenges all of us-- physicians, patients, and communities-- to recommit ourselves to the pledge to 'do no harm.'” AmericaCommunityChallengesScientistPatientHarmPhysiciansOutstandingPledge Author:David Satcher
“America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.” KindArtSeemsAmericaArtistHumanityScientistRewardsScholarBasementsArts And HumanitiesPenthouses Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.” LastsAmericaGenerationsEuropeScientistPhilosopherSpinozaEurope And America Author:David Ben-Gurion
“Even the great scientists have reported that their creative break-throughs came at a time of mental quietude. The surprising result of a nationwide inquiry among America's most eminent mathematicians, including Einstein, to find out their working methods, was that thinking 'plays only a subordinate part in the brief, decisive phase of the creative act itself'.” ThinkingPlayAmericaResultsBreakCreativeScientistMethodIncludingSurprisingPhasesMathematicianInquirySubordinatesGreat Scientist Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“I assume the same problem exists in Australia as in America of back-biting and jealousy and parochialism among disciplines - there are the scientists, and there are the humanities people, and there are chemists and the physicists and everybody snipes at everybody else and inter-disciplinary communication is rare. But it's very precious and necessary.” PeopleProblemAmericaHumanityCommunicationDisciplineScientistAssumingAustraliaPhysicistBitingChemistParochialism Author:Richard Lewontin