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Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

I'm a technological optimist in that I do believe that technology will provide solutions that will allow the world in 2050 to support 9 billion people at an acceptable standard of living. But I'm a political pessimist in that I am concerned about whether the science will be appropriately applied.

In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

If scientists can't communicate with the public, with policy makers, with one another, the future is going to be held back. We're not going to have the future that we could have.

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.

Science is far from the center of the world for most people: even for many with highly sophisticated tastes, interests, and accomplishments.

At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly.