Quotes

Energy

We will lay the foundation for our future capacity to meet America’s energy needs from America’s own resources.

- President Richard Nixon, 1974

{{We cannot afford continued delays. We cannot afford prolonged vulnerability to foreign producers. We must act.

- President Gerald Ford, 1975 }}

We are the generation that will win the war on the energy problem and in that process, rebuild the unity and confidence of America.

- President Jimmy Carter, 1979

Energy independence is the best preparation America can make for the future.

- President Ronald Reagan, 1982

The Congress should…enact measures to increase domestic energy production and energy conservation - in order to reduce dependence on foreign oil.

- President George H. W. Bush, 1990

We have it in our power to act right here, right now. I propose $6 billion in tax cuts and research and developments to encourage innovation, renewable energy, fuel-efficient cars, and energy-efficient homes.

- President Bill Clinton, 1998

We have got to do something about our dependence on oil - for two reasons. (It) provides an economic and national security risk… and… makes it harder to be wise stewards of the environment. - President George W. Bush, 2007

I think that in ten years, we can reduce our dependence so that we no longer have to import oil from the Middle East or Venezuela. I think that’s about a realistic timeframe… That’s why I’ve focused on putting resources into solar, wind, biodiesel, geothermal. These have been priorities of mine since I got to the Senate, and it is absolutely critical that we develop a high fuel efficient car that’s built not in Japan and not in South Korea, but built here in the United States of America.

- President Barack Obama, 2008

That’s why I’ve called for an investment of $15 billion a year over 10 years. Our goal should be, in 10 year’s time, we are free of dependence on Middle Eastern oil. And we can do it. Now, when JFK said we’re going to the Moon in 10 years, nobody was sure how to do it, but we understood that, if the American people make a decision to do something, it gets done. So that would be priority number one.

- President Barack Obama, 2008

Science/Mathematics

... as Sir Cyril Hinshelwood has observed ... fluid dynamicists were divided into hydraulic engineers who observed things that could not be explained and mathematicians who explained things that could not be observed.

- James Lighthill

... the progress of physics will to a large extent depend on the progress of nonlinear mathematics, of methods to solve nonlinear equations ... and therefore we can learn by comparing different nonlinear problems.

- Werner Heisenberg

Our present analytical methods seem unsuitable for the solution of the important problems arising in connection with nonlinear partial differential equations and, in fact, with virtually all types of nonlinear problems in pure mathematics. The truth of this statement is particularly striking in the field of fluid dynamics...

- John von Neumann

However varied may be the imagination of man, nature is a thousand times richer, ... Each of the theories of physics ... presents (partial differential) equations under a new aspect ... without these theories, we should not know partial differential equations.

- Henri Poincare

Since a general solution must be judged impossible from want of analysis, we must be content with the knowledge of some special cases, and that all the more, since the development of various cases seems to be the only way to bringing us at last to a more perfect knowledge.

- Leonard Euler