Quotes About Progress

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.

The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not cloud the horizon of tomorrow, but act as a spur to greater effort.

Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

I am accused often of too much experimentation.., but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in the same condition. I thrust forward into space as science and the rest do.

Science is the only true guide in life.

You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.

Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications of scientific research.

We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we cannot make anything clear.

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

Medicinal discovery, It moves in mighty leaps, It leapt straight past the common cold And gave it us for keeps.

The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws.

What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into science very quickly.

Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible.

Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.

Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.

We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life.

In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.

To conquer by sheer force is becoming harder and harder every day. Defensive is getting continuously the advantage of offensive, as we progress in the satanic science of destruction.

The most developed science remains a continual becoming

Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.