Quotes About Progress

Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change.

People care a lot that the USA is well run, and people globally expect us to do things in upgrading science and more.

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.

Science is conservative and one of the reasons science is conservative is science is trying to play it safe.

Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles.

Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.

My goal is to try to tell the public that America could use more science and technology in all aspects of its life.

There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.

The simple rule about weapons is that if thery can be built, they will be built.

Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.

Technology is that which separates us from our environment.

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.

Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy.

I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.

There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would use science wisely.

Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.

Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.

The basis of the discovery is imagination, careful reasoning and experimentation where the use of knowledge created by those who came before is an important component.

As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.