Winston Churchill Quotes about Science

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Science should be on tap, not on top.

Winston Churchill

Witty, Science, Technology

These, Gentlemen, are the opinions upon which I base my facts.

Winston Churchill

Science, Gentleman, Facts

This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every human being capable of comprehension. We must indeed pray that these awful agencies will be made to conduce to peace among the nations, and that instead of wreaking measureless havoc upon the entire globe, may become a perennial fountain of world prosperity.

Winston Churchill

Nature, Science, Men

Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945”

[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.

Winston Churchill

Dark, Science, Light

The Dark Ages may return-the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of Science; and what might now shower immeasureable material blessings upon mankind may even bring about its total destruction. Beware! I say. Time may be short. Referring to the discovery of atomic energy.

Winston Churchill

Dark, Science, Blessing

Winston Churchill (1949). “The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches”

We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than those we have already experienced. ... Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon the their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up to any room similarly equipped and hear and take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window.

Winston Churchill

Knowledge, Science, Years

Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.

Winston Churchill

Science, Filth, Insult

Randolph Spencer Churchill, Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert (1983). “Winston S. Churchill: Companion Vol. V, Part Three, the Coming of War 1936-1939”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.

Winston Churchill

Science, Men, Comprehension

Speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 31 March (1949)

It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite conveniences to ever greater numbers, but they may well have to pay dearly for them. But anyhow in my thought I stop short of the internal combustion engine which has made the world so much smaller. Still more must we fear the consequences of entrusting a human race so little different from their predecessors of the so-called barbarous ages such awful agencies as the atomic bomb. Give me the horse.

Winston Churchill

Horse, War, Science

Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost decisive in their character. Reflecting on the outcome of World War I, and an ominous future.

Winston Churchill

War, Character, Science

It may be that ... when the advance of destructive weapons enables everyone to kill everybody else nobody will want to kill anyone at all. [Referring to the hydrogen bomb.]

Winston Churchill

Science, Hydrogen Bomb, Bombs

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

Winston Churchill

Science, Age, Stones

1942 Speech, 26 Mar, in devastated war-time London.

I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.

Winston Churchill

Baby, Learning, Science

As cited in "The Life of Politics" by Henry Fairlie, Methuen, pp. 203-204., 1968.

On 17th July there came to us at Potsdam the eagerly-awaited news of the trial of the atomic bomb in the [New] Mexican desert. Success beyond all dreams crowded this sombre, magnificent venture of our American allies. The detailed reports ... could leave no doubt in the minds of the very few who were informed, that we were in the presence of a new factor in human affairs, and possessed of powers which were irresistible.

Winston Churchill

Success, Dream, Science

"Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963" by Robert Rhodes James, Vol. 1, p. 7210, 1974.

Winston Churchill Quotes about Science

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