Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Science, History, Tree

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.47, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• No nation can be really great unless it is great in peace, in industry, integrity, honesty. Skilled intelligence in civic affairs and industrial enterprises alike; the special ability of the artist, the man of letters, the man of science, and the man of business; the rigid determination to wrong no man, and to stand for righteousness-all these are necessary in a great nation.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Determination, Honesty, Integrity

  Theodore Roosevelt (1897). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: American ideals. Administration-Civil service”

• A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Children, Future

• I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural history, and my ambition was to be a scientific man of the Audubon, or Wilson, or Baird, or Coues type-a man like Hart Merriam, or Frank Chapman, or Hornaday, to-day.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Ambition, Science, College

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

• The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Art, Science, Branches

  Theodore Roosevelt, H. W. Brands (2001). “African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-naturalist”, p.21, Rowman & Littlefield

• Nowadays the field naturalist-who is usually at all points superior to the mere closet naturalist-follows a profession as full of hazard and interest as that of the explorer or of the big-game hunter in the remote wilderness.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Science, Games, Fields

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

• We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already been destroyed, and not replaced, and other vast areas are on the verge of destruction. Yet forests, unlike mines, can be so handled as to yield the best results of use, without exhaustion, just like grain fields.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Science, Land, Yield

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

• [Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy; and really good books on these subjects are as enthralling as any fiction ever written in prose or verse.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Philosophy, Book, Science

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Bully!”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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