Quotes About Advancement

It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly.

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.

I never saw no miracle of science that did not go from a blessing to a curse.

Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts.

When we benefit from CT scanners, M.R.I. devices, pacemakers and arterial stents, we can immediately appreciate how science affects the quality of our lives.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

[The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Then we'll work a hundred years without physics and chemistry.

Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.

The science of psychiatry is now where the science of medicine was before germs were discovered.

We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world.

Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants." These days we stand on each other's feet!

At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.

The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker.

We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science.

Ensuring that the US continues to lead the world in science and technology will be a central priority for my administration.