Quotes About Progress

The technical genius which could find answers was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found in universities and in the people at large.

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

....the ancient ritual of the earth; ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered; it is only the methods and tools that science is changing.

Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

In science we don't have prophets. We have heroes, but not prophets.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

Though we are politically enemies, yet with regard to Science it is presumable we shall not dissent from the practice of civilized people in promoting it

The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.

The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity lies before us with energy efficiency and clean energy.

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

The difference between the amoeba and Einstein is that, although both make use of the method of trial and error elimination, the amoeba dislikes erring while Einstein is intrigued by it.

In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.

Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point.

As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.