Quotes About Progress

Computer assisted proofs are getting better and better and computers will play a bigger and bigger role in the future.

At each stage...entirely new laws, concepts and generalizations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in the previous one.

Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.

Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.

That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that they make it true. You see?

Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.

Germany and France are pinning their hopes on young people, in terms of education, science and innovation.

Science "says" nothing. People say things and knowledge changes.

Science is not inherently good.

Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.

...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.

In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored.

The science of life is changing hearts and minds.

Freedom, the first-born of science.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

People tend not to disassociate the technological issues from pure scientific research, so that science sometimes gets a bad name for things that science doesn't deserve having a bad name for.

Christianity has always had sort of an ability to absorb the developments in science. But, it's always done it very slowly.

Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas.

Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution

A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.

Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.