Quotes About Advancement

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.

Scientific medicine is one of the greatest triumphs of humankind.

Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of human endeavor put together.

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.

Reduction is at the heart of progress in science.

We do not know how to formulate string theory nor do we know its underlying principles. Surprisingly, this fact does not stop us from making progress.

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.

Science is just magic with better PR.

We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles.

There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.

In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.

We're nothing without science. Nothing.

Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.

After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.

Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.

Science has but one fashion-to lose nothing once gained.

Computer assisted proofs are getting better and better and computers will play a bigger and bigger role in the future.

Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.

In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution