Progress In Science Quotes

Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Progress is made by trial and failure; the failures are generally a hundred times more numerous than the successes ; yet they are usually left unchronicled.

In science it often happens that scientists say, “You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken…”

Those who are really convinced that they have made progress in science would not demand freedom for the new views to continue side by side with the old, but the substitution of the new views for the old.

Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny…’

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.