Lewis M. Branscomb Quotes & Sayings

Scientists are used to debating with one another about the finer points of new research. But increasingly, they find themselves battling their televisions and computer screens, which transmit ever-more-heated rhetoric from politicians, pundits, and other public figures who misinterpret, misrepresent, and malign scientific results. — Lewis M. Branscomb

While it is becoming increasingly obvious that the fundamental architecture of a system has a profound Influence on the quality of its human factors, the vast majority of human factors studies concern the surface of hardware (keyboards, screens) or the very surface of the software (command names, menu formats). — Lewis M. Branscomb

Technology policy - whether we should have one and what form such a policy should take - was a core issue of the 1992 presidential campaign, and in February 1993 the Clinton administration confirmed that fostering new technologies will be a critical part of its agenda for redirecting the American economy. — Lewis M. Branscomb

Science has been the absolute bedrock of technological and economic progress in the United States. — Lewis M. Branscomb

The progress of science still depends on "a few people of vision". — Lewis M. Branscomb

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

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. — Lewis M. Branscomb

God loves the noise as much as the signal. — Lewis M. Branscomb

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

Technological innovation is the successful implementation (in commerce or management) of a technical idea new to the institution creating it. — Lewis M. Branscomb

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". — Lewis M. Branscomb

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