Scientific Progress Quotes

27 quotes by 27 authors

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. — Gaston Bachelard
One can not impede scientific progress. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. — Bertrand Russell
The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved. — John Bardeen
Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied. That is not… — Thomas Kuhn
In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to… — Charles Lindbergh
Scientific progress is the discovery of a more and more comprehensive simplicity... The previous successes give us confidence in the future of science: we become… — Georges Lemaitre
The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the scientific… — Norman Lockyer
Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as… — Hannah Arendt
Contrary to what I once thought, scientific progress did not consist simply in observing, in accurately formulating experimental facts and drawing up a theory from… — Francois Jacob
The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made. — Robert Barany
The UN is committed to the goal of ensuring that all nations share in economic, social, & scientific progress. It delivers humanitarian assistance to the… — Bill Bradley
Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity, of application of new ideas of scientific progress for the benefit… — Linus Pauling
Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated… — Vannevar Bush
Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them… — Albert Einstein
What happens then is like what happens when we separate a jigsaw puzzle into its fuve hundred pieces: The over-all picture disappears. This is the… — Paul Tournier
We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of mankind… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and… — Leonard Bernstein
I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment. — Ernest Lawrence
Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear as… — Ludwig von Mises

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