Quotes About Progress

Running doesnt mean arriving. Just because somebody is running doesn't mean they are running in the right direction. Just because someone has managed to start something before you doesnt mean they will finish before you. Stop competing with others but compete with yourself that way you will become better and not bitter.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself

For something to achieve we should strive to make things better and be prepared to sacrifice anything in the process including our rest in life, and our selfishness.

Every day is a new beginning. Every day gives opportunity to prove yourself better and better, to do something good and to prove your self worth.

Each day is one step further from birth, one moment closer to dismissal. How we travel this path is our own decision.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death

Death is really a great blessing for humanity without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not any hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient Stimulus to be creative.

X-rays will prove to be a hoax

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyond the reach of man

True progress in every scientific field means that the problems become multiplied and that new questions keep coming to the surface.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken', and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before lastly, they say they always believed it.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.