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John F. Kennedy
(29 May 1917 - 22 Nov 1963)
American president who was 35th President of the U.S. (1961-63). During his term, he had to deal with the situation of Russian offensive nuclear weapons in Cuba, discovered in Oct 1962. By 1963, a test ban treaty was established to slow the arms race. He was assassinated later that year.
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Science Quotes by John F. Kennedy (10)
A Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President's 'Easter egghead roll on the White House lawn.' I want to deny that!
[Welcoming Nobel Prize winners as his guests at a White House dinner.]
[Welcoming Nobel Prize winners as his guests at a White House dinner.]
— John F. Kennedy
Remarks at a dinner honoring Nobel Prize Winners of the Western Hemisphere (29 Apr 1962). From John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project [online].
See also: | Nobel Prize (8)
I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.
— John F. Kennedy
'Freedom's Cause: These are Extraordinary Times' (25 May 1961). In Vital Speeches of the Day (15 Jun 1961), Vol. 27, No. 17, 518-9.
In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, halting, but effective, toward bringing that power under human control. The challenge may be our salvation. As we begin to master the destructive potentialities of modern science, we move toward a new era in which science can fulfill its creative promise and help bring into existence the happiest society the world has ever known.
— John F. Kennedy
'Science as a Guide of Public Policy', Address to the National Academy of Science, Washington D. C. (22 Oct 1963).
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
— John F. Kennedy
Remarks upon presenting the NASA Distinguished Service Medal to astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, in the Flower Garden, at the White House, Washington, D.C. (21 May 1963). From John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project [online].
Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own right, as the light which has served to illuminate man's place in the universe, and as the source of understanding of man's own nature. 'Science as a Guide of Public Policy', Address to the National Academy of Science, Washington D. C. (22 Oct 1963).
— John F. Kennedy
Science And Society
The language of science is universal, and perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have to invent a new institution to cope with it—and almost invariably, these days, it must be an international institution.
— John F. Kennedy
'Science as a Guide of Public Policy', Address to the National Academy of Science, Washington D. C. (22 Oct 1963).
The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.
— John F. Kennedy
Address Before the 18th General Assembly of the United Nations, 20 Sep 1963. In Edward C. Luck, Mixed Messages: American Politics and International Organization, 1919-1999 (1999), 41.
The supreme reality of our time is…our common vulnerability on this planet.
— John F. Kennedy
Address Before Irish Parliament, Dublin (28 Jun 1963). In Arthur Meier Schlesinger, A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House (2002), 901.
See also: | Peace (5)
The world is a very different one now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
— John F. Kennedy
Inaugural address (1961). Robert G. Torricelli and Andrew Carroll, In Our Own words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century (1999), 222.
This is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
[Welcoming Nobel Prize winners as his guests at a White House dinner.]
[Welcoming Nobel Prize winners as his guests at a White House dinner.]
— John F. Kennedy
Remarks at a dinner honoring Nobel Prize Winners of the Western Hemisphere (29 Apr 1962).
