Quotes About Progress

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

The science of psychiatry is now where the science of medicine was before germs were discovered.

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter.

Science is uncertain.

The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.

It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest themselves in the commonplace.

Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.

We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world.

Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.

Combine science and humanities.

Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants." These days we stand on each other's feet!

At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period

Science advances funeral by funeral

Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.

The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.

Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers.

If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change.

Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.