Comprehensive Quote by Georges Lemaitre

In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas- and this is a call most scientists are…

— Werner Heisenberg

Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.

— Sydney Brenner

Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.

— Ernst Mayr

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

— Gaston Bachelard

Contrary to what I once thought, scientific progress did not consist simply in observing, in accurately formulating experimental facts and drawing up a theory…

— Francois Jacob

Progress is the exploration of our own error. Evolution is a consolidation of what have always begun as errors. And errors are of two…

— Jacob Bronowski

Since the Renaissance, a concept called 'progress' has been baked into our society. Progress - founded on an accumulation of knowledge through experience (and…

— Seth Shostak

Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not…

— Rita Levi-Montalcini

The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike

— Anonymous

“Progress in science is guided by a sense of curiosity, or the desire to discover what is currently unknown. On the other hand, progress…

— Koichi Tanaka

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

Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard.... let us not pretend to…

— E. O. Wilson