Quotes About Progress

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it.

Scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium, a benefit

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.

Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

'Impossible' is not a scientific term.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

A teacher is someone who doesn't measure what's given but measures the change created by the giving.

No matter what you are after, if you are too focused on the end result, you may miss the rewarding journey that will ultimately get you there. Your achieved goal is the cumulative sum of the small decisions that you make along the way to steer you in the right direction and push you forward. So appreciate your progress, constantly refine your process, and embrace all the struggles that you encounter because overcoming them can endow you with the confidence you need to keep going.

Do not waste time trying to deal with your enemies

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become to improve for a better bright future

There will always be rough days and easy ones. Like a ship, we must sail through both.