Quotes About Progress

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.

I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.

We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin word for knowledge ... Knowledge is our destiny.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.

Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs.

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.

Every important idea in science sounds strange at first.

We're nothing without science. Nothing.

A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.

Freedom [is] the first-born daughter of science

Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.

In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.

Science has helped us to understand and master ourselves, creating an elevated new form of human life, the wealth and beauty of which cannot be pictured today by the keenest imagination.

Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.

Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific age, an offspring of both science and art.

Science is a collaborative enterprise, spanning the generations. When it permits us to see the far side of some new horizon, we remember those who prepared the way - seeing for them also.

All of science is built on territory once occupied by gods. Is there some boundary at which science is supposed to stop?

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.

After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.