Quotes About Growth

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.

The Earth is the cradle of Humanity. But one doesn't always live in the cradle.

Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

One of the reasons we don't do as well as we should is that we are all over-taught.

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life.

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.

The most developed science remains a continual becoming

The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.

For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.