The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is…

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal…

— Arthur Koestler

“The way of science is paved with discarded theories which were once declared self-evident;”

— Karl R. Popper

“The Ancient Desert Fathers, when they were disconsolate and without hope, would repeat one word, over and over, as a kind of soothing mantra.…

— Gregory Boyle

What I do is very theoretical. It won't necessarily have implications for anything anyone is doing tomorrow, yet you know that there's a sense…

— Lisa Randall

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

— John B. S. Haldane

Those who are really convinced that they have made progress in science would not demand freedom for the new views to continue side by…

— Vladimir Lenin

Mass application of technological innovations, which constitutes much of the distinctive substance of modern economic growth, is closely connected with the further progress of…

— Simon Kuznets

“Do not forget that when the heart petrifies there is no progress. All science must be like a fruit, so ordered that it may…

— Blaise Cendrars

How do you know that the incessant progress of science will not compel scientists to consider that life has existed during eternity, and not…

— Louis Pasteur

The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because…

— David Gross

It surely can be no offence to state, that the progress of science has led to new views, and that the consequences that can…

— Anonymous

“...the progress of science depends much less upon either theoretical considerations or systematic investigation than is commonly believed, but rather on the transmittal of…

— Gene Wolfe

I like greenery, nature, I don't like littering the streets. The progress of science and technology comes at a cost and I don't think…

— Anupam Roy

But weightier still are the contentment which comes from work well done, the sense of the value of science for its own sake, insatiable…

— Lawrence Joseph Henderson

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

— Herbert Spencer