Quotes About Progress

If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.

Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.

In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.

Computer science … jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer--or, I can argue, than anything but perhaps biology, and there it's just a tie.

There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact.

Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.

When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

I've called science fiction 'reality ahead of schedule'

Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts.

If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.

Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

It devolves upon the United States to help motorize the world.

When we benefit from CT scanners, M.R.I. devices, pacemakers and arterial stents, we can immediately appreciate how science affects the quality of our lives.

In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right.

Science is the only religion of mankind.