Quotes About Progress

One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.

Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance.

History is a science, no more and no less.

We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.

Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world.

If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.

Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.

All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.

Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance "God".

For us there is no ignorabimus, and in my opinion none whatever in natural science. In opposition to the foolish ignorabimus our slogan shall be: "We must know - we will know!"

Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition

To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

Our true mentor in life is science.

He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones.

Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.

I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.