"One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war."
-Paul Wolfowitz
WarView Quote
"I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.“
-Paul Wolfowitz
posted in Science
Other Quotes by Paul Wolfowitz
Discover more inspiring quotes by Paul Wolfowitz
"Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center."
-Paul Wolfowitz
ImaginationView Quote
"I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive."
-Paul Wolfowitz
WarView Quote
"We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States."
-Paul Wolfowitz
WarView Quote
"That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views."
-Paul Wolfowitz
WarView Quote
"One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war."
-Paul Wolfowitz
ScienceView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century."
-Bertrand Russell
ScienceView Quote
"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art."
-Will Durant
ScienceView Quote
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
-Albert Einstein
ScienceView Quote
"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness."
-Charles Darwin
ScienceView Quote
"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature."
-Jacob Bronowski
ScienceView Quote
"Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science."
-Robert Green Ingersoll
ScienceView Quote