Lewis M. Branscomb Quotes

#1. The progress of science still depends on "a few people of vision".

Lewis M. Branscomb

#2. While political and cultural factors are important as explanations for differences in national technology policy and industrial practices, emergent trends in science, engineering and management are leading to new paradigms for high-technology innovation in both Japan and the United States.

Lewis M. Branscomb

#3. Teachers of science in schools and colleges must be masters of the tools for ensuring integrity in science and must instill them in their students.

Lewis M. Branscomb

#4. We must understand that the fact of error, demonstrated in subsequent work, does not suggest that ethical lapses are responsible. It is more likely that the source of error is, as the advertisement says, a reflection of the fact that "its dangerous to trifle with Mother Nature".

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#5. Shortly after taking office in 1993, President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore called for a shift in American technology policy toward an expansion of public investments in partnerships with private industry.

Lewis M. Branscomb

#6. An exploration of the challenges Korea faces in transforming its economy from a government-directed, low-cost producer to an innovative world economic power based on its own scientific and technological development.

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#7. Science has been the absolute bedrock of technological and economic progress in the United States.

Lewis M. Branscomb

#8. Technological innovation is the successful implementation (in commerce or management) of a technical idea new to the institution creating it.

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#9. God loves the noise as much as the signal.

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