Quotes About Progress

Thus science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race.

No man can run up the natural line of Evolution without coming to Christianity at the top.

We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.

Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing.

Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.

The races are in fact disappearing, although the process will require thousands of years at present rates

science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.

You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.

Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.

Education is an organic necessity of a human being.

It is a little bit science project-y sometimes, and we talk about it that way.

It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction of Hell.

The dangers that face the world can, every one of them, be traced back to science. The salvations that may save the world will, every one of them, be traced back to science.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.

It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.

It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold.

In any case I hold that there must arise a science of the development of economic forms and relations.

The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and organisation to composition.

The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.

We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals.

But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.

What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow up?

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.