Quotes About Progress

Knowledge humanely applied makes human progress possible.

Whatever we do, all the knowledge, the experience, they stay with us, we carry them on, use them in one way or another.

And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.

The scientific world is to be less threatening than was feared. It is to made safe for human beings. And the way to make it safe is to reflect on the foundation of knowledge.

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

An unsatisfied appetite for knowledge means progress and is the state of a normal mind.

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information.

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures

In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction.

One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.

History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.

I know that we do not know enough. We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Biological knowledge is doubling every five years.

We won't know for a few years.

What I sell is the higher knowledge of knowing whats next and not following the trend of whats now.

I don't think you have to wait for knowledge and balance to come before you seek power because you need a certain amount of power to gain knowledge and balance.

Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.

Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.

A little knowledge can go a long way.

Knowledge will appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping fingers to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.

The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.

It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge.