Science & Tech Quote by Abdullah Gul

Spoken like a head of state who has watched “progress” arrive wearing two masks: prosperity and peril. Abdullah Gul’s line leans on an apparently uncontroversial premise - science and technology have changed everything - to smuggle in a political demand: governance. The key verb isn’t “transformed,” it’s “ensure.” That word quietly shifts agency away from inventors and markets and toward institutions that can set rules, fund priorities, and draw red lines. It’s the rhetoric of stewardship, not celebration.

The phrase “serve humanity” is doing diplomatic heavy lifting. It offers a moral north star broad enough to unite audiences across ideology and borders, while leaving unresolved the central fight of the tech age: who gets to define “humanity’s” interests when benefits and harms are unevenly distributed. In a country like Turkey, positioned between Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia, this language also reads as a bridge-building gesture - modernity without surrendering to a purely Western script of modernization. It’s a way to endorse innovation while signaling cultural and political autonomy.

“Make our world a better place” has the cadence of soft power: optimistic, inclusive, hard to oppose. Yet its vagueness is strategic. Leaders reach for this phrasing when they want room to maneuver between security concerns, economic competitiveness, and civil liberties. The subtext: technology is not destiny; it’s a lever. The real question is whose hands are on it, and what they’re willing to trade to pull it.