Ronald Reagan Quotes About Science

• [A woman waiting for him in the Kremlin asked Gobachev] "Was communism invented by a politician or a scientist?" [He replied] "Well, a politician." She said, "That explains it. The scientist would have tried it on mice first."

  Ronald Reagan

  Science, Waiting, Firsts

• Well, it [evolution] is a theory, it is a scientific theory only, and it has in recent years been challenged in the world of science and is not yet believed in the scientific community to be as infallible as it once was believed. But if it was going to be taught in the schools, then I think that also the biblical theory of creation, which is not a theory but the biblical story of creation, should also be taught.

  Ronald Reagan

  School, Science, Biblical

• I know Teddy Kennedy had fun at the Democratic convention when he said that I said that trees and vegetation caused 80 percent of the air pollution in this country. ... Well, now he was a little wrong about what I said. I didn't say 80 percent. I said 92 percent-93 percent, pardon me. And I didn't say air pollution, I said oxides of nitrogen. Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen. ... If we are totally successful and can eliminate all the manmade oxides of nitrogen, we'll still have 93 percent as much as we have in the air today.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Fun, Successful

• Education is like a diamond with many facets: It includes the basic mastery of numbers and letters that give us access to the treasury of human knowledge, accumulated and refined through the ages; it includes technical and vocational training as well as instruction in science, higher mathematics, and humane letters.

  Ronald Reagan

  Science, Numbers, Giving

  Reagan, Ronald (1988). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986”, p.490, Best Books on

• I am not a scientist.

  Ronald Reagan

  Science, Scientist, Experiments

• Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.

  Ronald Reagan

  Science, House, Bird

  Ronald Reagan, Bill Adler (1981). “The Reagan wit”, Jameson Books

• I have flown twice over Mount St. Helens out on our West Coast. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I have a suspicion that that one little mountain has probably released more sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere of the world than has been released in the last ten years of automobile driving or things of that kind that people are so concerned about.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Knowledge, Science

• You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.

  Ronald Reagan

  Cutting, Science, Technology

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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