Quotes About Progress

Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. Sometimes it is one foot which is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.

In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years - are still in their very earliest stages.

[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live.

The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.

Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind.

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science.

Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

Half of what we know is wrong, the purpose of science is to determine which half.

The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

Science has often resisted new ideas and fought bitterly to prevent them coming on board.

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Homosexuals in Russia live in peace, work, are promoted, receive national awards for their achievements in science, art or any other sphere, medals are awarded to them, I have awarded them myself.

Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it! Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he asked about the practical worth of electricity.

Religion has always persecuted science.

Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.