Quotes About Progress

How do you know that the incessant progress of science will not compel scientists to consider that life has existed during eternity, and not matter?

Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment.

Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.

Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.

Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad.

Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.

It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly.

Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor approximations, and premature conclusions.

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.

Knowledge is the death of research.

I never saw no miracle of science that did not go from a blessing to a curse.

However, science isn't just about showing when you're right; it's also about showing when you're wrong.

The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.

Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.

Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

The sound of progress is perhaps the sound of plummeting hypotheses.