Quotes About Progress

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.

Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering.

Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

I just want to say one word to you-just one word ..."plastics!" ... There's a great future in plastics.

Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

Science and time and necessity have propelled us, the United States, to be the general store of the world, dealers in everything. Most of all, merchants for a better way of life.

The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science.

The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.

Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.

Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties are, if it is desired greatly enough.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.

Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that he has much to learn, but much also to unlearn.

Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.

No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present.

It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.

Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who will help invent the future.