Compared Quote by Fabiola Gianotti

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. We have not fully…

— Marilyn Ferguson

Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature,"…

— Thomas Huxley

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.

— Milan Kundera

Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way…

— Charles Kettering

Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on…

— Thomas A. Edison

I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What…

— David Christian

Yes, we know more than ever before, and it's a wonder that we get to inhabit a world full of driverless cars and 3D…

— Pico Iyer

The only progress that knowledge allows is in enabling us to describe more and more in detail the world we see and its evolution.…

— Albert Schweitzer

And yet humanity is so not evolved that how can you expect anything absolutely major to happen? Look how long, we move ahead in…

— Lily Tomlin

I think we have made progress. There's no doubt about it, we have moved forward. But there's some essential, core thing that has not…

— Eve Ensler