Growth Quote by Marilyn Ferguson

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.

— Marilyn Ferguson

Although scientific revolutions in how we see the world do occur, the bulk of our scientific understanding comes from the cumulative impact of numerous…

— Michael E. Mann

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

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

“Those insights in science that have led to a breakthrough were not logically derived from preexisting knowledge: The creative processes on which the progress…

— William Lanouette

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

— Anonymous

“It is a fact of life that oversimplified accounts of the development of science are often necessary in its teaching. Most scientific progress is…

— Jim Al-Khalili

Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts

— Ernst Mayr

Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date. Only a…

— Stephen Hawking

The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear like a…

— William Whewell

The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines.

— Freeman Dyson