Quotes About Progress

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

The current state of knowledge remains vague when history is not considered, just as history remains vague without substantive knowledge about the current state.

There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Computers combine things to make new knowledge at such high speed that we cannot absorb it.

In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!

Chris[topher] Reeve wisely parsed the difference between optimism and hope. Unlike optimism, he said, 'Hope is the product of knowledge and the projection of where the knowledge can take us.

Innovation-the heart of the knowledge economy-is fundamentally social.

Time, and Industry, produce everyday new knowledge.

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.

We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.

This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

So as I increase in my knowledge, in my training and education, I increase in my value in my worth to society that I'm trying to penetrate.

The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps.

It is a shame for a person to have been a Christian for years but not to have advanced beyond the knowledge of his salvation.

It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.

Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.