The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with the greatest possible speed.
If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.
Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.
Multi-touch sensing was designed to allow nontechies to do masterful things while allowing power users to be even more virtuosic.
I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.
Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.
Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.
So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things.
I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce colorful pressures and conflicts.
The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.
I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.
It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science.
What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth.
It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest.
If I had my choice, every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science.
And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists.
Unfortunately, a lot of economists wanted to make their subject a science. So the more what you do resembles physics or chemistry, the more credible you become.
New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
Since coming to Congress, I have been advocating for increased resources for research in the physical sciences and for the Department of Energy Office of Science in particular.
In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.
