Susan Hockfield famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Will America lead...and reap the rewards? Or will we surrender that advantage to other countries with clearer vision?
-- Susan Hockfield

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I want MIT to be the dream of every child who wants to grow up to make the world a better place. We need to reach those young explorers and bring them with us on the great adventure of discovery and innovation.
-- Susan Hockfield

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Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who will help invent the future.
-- Susan Hockfield

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To recover from the current economic downturn, it has been estimated that we need to create on the order of 17 million to 20 million new jobs in the coming decade...And it's very hard to imagine where those jobs are going to come from unless we seriously get busy reinventing manufacturing.
-- Susan Hockfield

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Innovations that drive lasting economic growth emerge from the most advanced science, mathematics and technology.
-- Susan Hockfield

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Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes are tight, the play ends at the right time, you know exactly what the scene is about, but it seems flat; you can almost see that too many hands have been on the play. The individual voice is gone.
You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.
It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, â€˜We want it now, in our lifetime.â€™ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.
If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

Susan Hockfield famous quotes

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