Quotes About Progress

Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee of readiness for farther progress.

The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket.

Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of human endeavor put together.

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.

Reduction is at the heart of progress in science.

We do not know how to formulate string theory nor do we know its underlying principles. Surprisingly, this fact does not stop us from making progress.

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again.

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

We speak piously of ... making small studies that will add another brick to the temple of science. Most such bricks just lie around the brickyard.

Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.

The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to walk with open eyes towards slavery.

One week ago I said that cloning of mammals was years away... it is fun to be alive at this point in history.

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

Science is a collection of successful recipes.

We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.

[Science is] piecemeal revelation.

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they advance.

We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we lack utterly in imagination.