Quotes About Progress

Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant.

Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.

The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.

Everybody thinks some times that science is done as a master plan and that somebody like me came from Mars and figured out everything and so on, but that's really not the way it worked.

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

The man who wins out and survives does so only because of superior science and strategy.

The Earth is the cradle of Humanity. But one doesn't always live in the cradle.

When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.

Hubris and science are incompatible.

Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.

In science, new ideas are at first completely neglected, later fiercely attacked, and finally regarded as well known.

The human spirit must prevail over technology.

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.

Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.