Quotes About Advancement

It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.

Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.

Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.

As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity lies before us with energy efficiency and clean energy.

Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point.

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.

The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. Sometimes it is one foot which is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both.

The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.

In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years - are still in their very earliest stages.

The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not cloud the horizon of tomorrow, but act as a spur to greater effort.

Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications of scientific research.

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

Medicinal discovery, It moves in mighty leaps, It leapt straight past the common cold And gave it us for keeps.

The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws.

Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.

The most developed science remains a continual becoming

Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.

Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad.

Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.