Quotes About Progress

La ciencia es acumulativa; cada nueva teoría incorpora las teorías anteriores válidas como aproximaciones, e incluso explica por qué esas aproximaciones funcionan, caso de que así sea.

La diferencia fundamental entre la ciencia de Aristarco y la nuestra no son los errores de sus observaciones. Algunos errores esporádicos graves siguen afectando a la observación astronómica y la física experimental[...]. La verdadera diferencia entre Aristarco y los astrónomos y físicos de la actualidad no es que los datos de sus observaciones fueran erróneos, sino que jamás los puso en duda, y ni siquiera reconoció que pudieran ser imperfectos.

El gran éxito de Newton consistió en explicar los movimientos de los planetas, no simplemente en describirlos. Newton no explicó la gravitación, y sabia que no lo había hecho, pero es lo que ocurre siempre con las explicaciones, que siempre queda algo para una futura explicación.

What is important in science (I leave philosophy to others) is not the solution of some popular scientific problems of one's own day, but understanding the world. In the course of this work, one finds out what sort of explanations are possible, and what sort of problems can lead to those explanations. The progress of science has been largely a matter of discovering what questions should be asked.

If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?

The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.

Last week I forgot how to ride a bicycle.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

They don't make it as well as they did in the past!0

We are as gods and might as well get good at it.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

Starting anew with a clean slate has been one of the most harmful ideas in history. It treats previous knowledge as an impediment and imagines that only present knowledge deployed in theoretical purity can make real the wondrous new vision.

Everything looks like a failure in the middle." Any

Climate change. Urbanization. Biotechnology. Those three narratives, still taking shape, are developing a long arc likely to dominate this century.

Buildings keep being pushed around by three irresistible forces—technology, money, and fashion.

We all know how it went when Europe changed from a culture addicted to depressants to one high on stimulants [...] Within two hundred years of Europe's first cup, famine and the plague were historical footnotes. Governments became more democratic, slavery vanished, and the standards of living and literacy went through the roof. War became less frequent and more horrible.

A land ethic for tomorrow should be as honest as Thoreau's Walden, and as comprehensive as the sensitive science of ecology. It should stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life. If, in our haste to "progress," the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America.

De tijden en de smaak zijn veranderd en de mensen ook. Men moet, ik herhaal het, nooit trachten een geliefde kennis uit lang verleden tijden terug te zien - nooit trachten iets te herleven van 't geen voorbij is. Le passé a ses mirages, maar laat u er niet door begoochelen.

I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

I learned to change my accent in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.

Men go crazy in congregation. They only get better one by one.

Men go crazy in congregations They only get better one by one

People who lived in the 1900s and 2000s lived 1000 years

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.