Quotes About Progress

Ensuring that the US continues to lead the world in science and technology will be a central priority for my administration.

Twenty years ago many chemists would have defended the theory of bond arms as a satisfactory explanation because they had become accustomed to thinking of it as unique and as ultimate.

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

There has been no discovery like it in the history of man. It puts into man's hands the key to using the fundamental energy of the universe.

The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.

I think today the church faces a very real challenge in not repeating the errors of the past, in sort of a stand off, a fear of science.

Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.

Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .

There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.

Originally a pupil of Liebig, I became a pupil of Dumas, Gerhardt and Williamson: I no longer belonged to any school.

Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.

Scientific medicine is one of the greatest triumphs of humankind.

The U.S. ranks 25th in math and 21st in science. We are woefully behind. The only way to change this situation is through public-private partnerships.

The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research.

Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to teach it, not just 10%.

Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.

Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.