Quotes About Progress

I sleep better at night knowing that scientists can clone sheep.

As the world of science has grown in size and in power, its deepest problems have changed from the epistemological to the social.

It's really quite astounding to see what the science says we can actually do.

Science began to be powerful when it began to be cumulative, when observers began to preserve detailed records, to organize cooperating groups in order to pool and criticize their experiences.

The game of science can accurately be described as a never-ending insult to human intelligence.

Science is as yet in its infancy, and we can foretell little of the future save that the thing that has not been is the thing that shall be; that no beliefs, no values, no institutions are safe.

So far from being an isolated phenomenon the late war is only an example of the disruptive result that we may constantly expect from the progress of science.

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

The region of the mysterious is rapidly shrinking.

If science were communism, was it also not possible that communism could itself become a science?

As science, of necessity, becomes more involved with itself, so also, of necessity, it becomes more international. I am impressed to know that of the 670 members of this Academy

I'm going to be a president who believes in science.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost.

I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I just try to think about the future and not be sad

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago but it is put to better use.

Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences b

All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.

Even if ninety-nine percent of what you discover is later proven wrong, it is the one percent that is right that matters.

Sci-fi opens the way in mind for the new science.