Ancient Quote by William Wickenden

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

[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

I am critical of modernity giving science and technology a blank check as if it were the fountain of all truth. That is not…

— Huston Smith

“Progress in science and technology is real, but it builds on past truths without rejecting them. Computers don’t have to be re-invented in order…

— Gene Edward Veith

Modern science is a catalyst agent to fulfil the needs of humankind. We must ensure that it reaches to poorest of the poor.

— Narendra Modi

What the founders of modern science ... had to do, was not criticize and to combat certain faulty theories, and to correct or to…

— Alexandre Koyre

Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association…

— Albert Einstein

Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation…

— Robert Anton Wilson

“The question of the relation between modernity and postmodernity revolves around the issue of 'legitimation.' Modernity, then, appeals to science to legitimate its claim…

— James K.A. Smith