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For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.

Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your nation tomorrow, then you'd better rethink how you allocate taxes to fund science. The federal budget needs to recognize this.

There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.

Innovation requires a novel approach to scientific problem solving, higher level of resource commitments over much longer time durations.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any future a country might dream for itself.

Mass application of technological innovations, which constitutes much of the distinctive substance of modern economic growth, is closely connected with the further progress of science, in its turn the basis for additional advance in technology.

Science and the many benefits that science has produced have played a crucial part in our history and produced vast improvements to human welfare.

Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.

If I could snap my fingers and do one thing in science, I would get more funding for basic science. But the level of funding that needs to be done is not on the order of millions, like the cost of the Breakthrough Prizes. It's billions to tens of billions.