10 quotes on the value of science to society

Since the beginning of the post-second world war era, the United States has led the world to science by investing in all aspects of effort, as is relevant to society: fundamentally, educational and investing in fundamental and practical research programs to advance the boundaries of human knowledge. The abandonment of these principles, this roadmap and a sustained investment in scientific effort ensures the abdication of scientific leadership, the assignor to the rest of the world.

A transverse cut of the Wealden dome, in the south of England, which required hundreds of millions of years just to explain the characteristics of the erosion observed, with fossils of past life found in the different layers. The chalk deposits on each side, absent in the center, provide evidence of an incredibly long geological scale required to produce this structure. Darwin’s estimates for the age of the earth, both geologically and biologically, helped guide astronomers towards the discovery of the process supplying the stars and the age of the universe.

The launch of Cassini on October 15, 1997. This spectacular sequence was taken from the Hangar AF on the Cape Canaveral air station, with a solid rocket recovery ship in the foreground. The lessons we learn from the exploration of the universe often result in improvements in quality of life here on earth, especially in the long term. Investing in science efforts, from geology to biology, including astrophysics, often pays great dividends in the future and benefits from enormous investment yields, benefiting the whole company.

Ultraviolet, visible and infrared lasers can all be used to break graphene oxide to create graphene sheets using the laser engraving technique. Right panels show electronic microscope to scan graphene produced at different scales. All the progress of modern microscopy and imaging can trace their origins towards the first experiences with optical lenses, which date back several hundred years, the compound microscope being first invented in the late 1500s.

This apparently idyllic photo of a 2012 village in North Korea, along the Yalu River Delta, papers on an embarrassing truth about food insecurity in the country. In leveling forests to make room for more agricultural land at the end of the 20th century, the threat of famine has been omnipresent in North Korea since since, because the landscape has been modified in a manner that makes the whole country less resilient to the effects of floods and droughts. If North Korea had based its agricultural practices on the best science of the day, this would not have led to the famine of millions of North Koreans over the years.

This graph shows the NASA budget, from 1959 to 2025, as a percentage of the total federal budget. The budget proposed for the 2026 fiscal year would reduce the funding of NASA, on the whole, by 6.8 billion dollars: its greatest reduction since its creation. The largest cuts should go to the direction of the scientific mission of NASA, which is the branch which leads to the greatest direct advantage of humanity and to the greatest scientific knowledge of new knowledge.

The perseverance of the NASA rover puts its robotic arm to bypass a rocky outcrop called “Skinner Ridge” in the Jezero de Mars crater. Many organic compounds have already been identified in Martian soils present at this place by perseverance, but “biological products”, despite the implications of this word, generally have nothing to do with life; It simply indicates a molecule containing a carbon hydrogen link. In 2025, there was no crew attempt to land on Mars, and promises for this purpose are incongruous with current technology.

In 2019, with the Hurricane Dorian which takes place on the Florida coast, the official predictions of the NOAA (in white) were published with a Sharpie to align incorrectly with the previous declarations of Donald Trump (which were factually inaccurate) on the potential path of the hurricane to include parts of the Alabama, which were never at risk. It was an incredible “test” to know if loyalty to truth or to a particular individual was more important, presenting the difference between real science and science which was infiltrated and polluted by politics.

This graph shows the calendar of immunization of children and adolescents up to date by age, counting in November 2024, as recommended by the CDC. New recommendations are released, based on fraudulent studies and defying scientific consensus, making the CDC 2025 recommendations be the most unreliable to promote the public health and security they have ever been in history.

David Hilbert (at the far right, in the front row) was one of the most prestigious mathematicians of the 20th century, and led the Faculty of Göttingen for many years. The exodus of Jewish mathematicians of 1933 was motivated by Hitler’s policies, and its declaration that “our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If (that) means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we will beyond ourselves from science … “Hilbert then declared that there was no more mathematics in Göttingen. Based on the publication rates, advances and breakthroughs made before 1933 against later, it turned out to be completely correct.