Quotes about Progress
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
— Elbert Hubbard
We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.
— Elbert Hubbard
Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.
— Al Gore
People care a lot that the USA is well run, and people globally expect us to do things in upgrading science and more.
— Bill Gates
I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.
— Charles Kettering
Freedom, the first-born of science.
— Thomas Jefferson
Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.
— George Bernard Shaw
Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft
— George Bernard Shaw
All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.
— Albert Einstein