Quotes about Progress

I am this month one whole year older than I was this time twelve-month; and having got, as you perceive, almost into the middle of my fourth volume—and no farther than to my first day's life—'tis demonstrative that I have three hundred and sixty-four days more life to write just now, than when I first set out; so that instead of advancing, as a common writer, in my work with what I have been doing at it—on the contrary, I am just thrown so many volumes back—

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.

Computer science … jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer--or, I can argue, than anything but perhaps biology, and there it's just a tie.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

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.

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.

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.

Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.