I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress could justify such an act; I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be nece...
An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at best very occasional) knowledge , purify itself of errors, and progress in general enlightenment. That would be a crime against human n...
I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science, however, gives me the feeling of steady progress: I am convinced that theoretical physics ...
It surely can be no offence to state, that the progress of science has led to new views, and that the consequences that can be deduced from the knowledge of a hundred facts may be very different from those deducible from five. It is also possible tha...
Ever since the beginning of the middle-class era, with its faith in progress, belief in progress has dominated the upbringing of children too. Childhood now came to be understood only as the preliminary stage on the way to the full personhood of the ...
The story is uneven in its progression.
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal
The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
War is progress, peace is stagnation
I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.
Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.
Women's progress has been a collective effort.
Magic works best for me when it aligns with scientific principles.
The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.
We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.
Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
