Quotes About Progress

Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.

We create our future, by well improving present opportunities: however few and small they are.

Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.

Habit is a powerful means of advancement, and the habit of eternal vigilance and diligence, rarely fails to bring a substantial reward.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

Tomorrow may be fair, however stormy the sky of today.

I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

In the new era, thought itself will be transmitted by radio.

Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.

Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.

I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.

All significant breakthroughs are break -"withs" old ways of thinking.

The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and you're not going to make any progress.

Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life.

I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.