Quotes About Progress

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

Science is the only savior.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.

History is the science of people.

All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.

The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.

In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.

The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which seemed to possess eternal life.

Then we'll work a hundred years without physics and chemistry.

For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yer to yere; And out of olde bokis, in good fey, Comyth al this newe science that men lere.

It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

I'm happy to keep doing science and being a mentor to anyone who asks for advice.