At their best, at their most ...

At their best, at their most creative, science and engineering are attributes of liberty-noble expressions of man's God-given right to investigate and explore the universe without fear of social or political or religious reprisals.
 David Sarnoff

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Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.
 David Sarnoff
Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.
 David Sarnoff
I ... began my career as a wireless amateur. After 43 years in radio, I do not mind confessing that I am still an amateur. Despite many great achievements in the science of radio and electronics, what we know today is far less than what we have still to learn.
 David Sarnoff
We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.
 David Sarnoff
Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.
 David Sarnoff