Quotes About Progress

Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.

The secrets of evolution, are time and death. There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us.

What happens to the world when science stops evolving?

Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.

The inventors of tools enhance civilization, but the author of ideas enables them to invent.

Most people thought he was insane when he looked up into the sky with a simple handmade telescope and cried out that the Earth revolves around the Sun, because this was four years ago.

Human kind is already perfect, Technology is getting stronger but we are getting weaker

The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.

The technological man is limited as his tools. The man without technologies is limitless.

Black holes are the last vestige of civilizations obsessed with tinkering.

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation.

In science, progress is possible. In fact, if one believes in Bayes' theorem, scientific progress is inevitable as predictions are made and as beliefs are tested and refined.

Nothing is easier than yesterday's solutions.

Yes, human salvation will come through science, but only through the nature-respecting science!

Scientists are the true driving force of civilization.

It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible.[Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.]

It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons

From a biology point of view, the purpose of humanity is to ensure his survival by expanding his domain into the stars.

There's no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.

I dream of a world where Science shapes the structure of a society, rather than politics.

Slow down to speed up. Anonymous

If the human race wants to go to Hell in a basket technology can help it get there by jet.

My advice is to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

Whenever science makes a discovery the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.