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

    Love   Math   Science  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.79, Harvard University Press
  • Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

  • Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

  • Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

    Men   Progress   Moral  
  • False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

    Descent of Man Ch. 21, Appleton, New York (1871)
  • Reduction is at the heart of progress in science.

    Jon Elster (1989). “Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences”, p.74, Cambridge University Press
  • 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.

    Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18
  • Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.

  • In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

    Keynote address at CSICOP conference in 1987. "Do Science and the Bible Conflict?" Book by Judson Poling, p. 30, 2003.
  • If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.

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

    Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.9, Transaction Publishers
  • To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

    Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld (1966). “Evolution of Physics”, p.92, Simon and Schuster
  • The pretention that some of us are better than others, I don't think is a very good thing. And who is contributing what to our progress in science is not so obvious and many who don't get that Nobel Prize are better than people... than some of us that do get the Nobel Prize. I think we should not be interested in prizes, we should be interested in learning about nature.

    Interview with Adam Smith, www.nobelprize.org. July 2008.
  • All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

    Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18
  • Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

    Letter to Heinrich Zangger (1917), as quoted in "Albert Einstein: A Biography" by Albrecht Fölsing, (p. 399), 1997.
  • 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.

    Views   Progress   Sides  
    Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, V. I. Lenin (1927). “Collected works of V. I. Lenin”
  • 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.

    William Ramsay (1909). “Essays Biographical and Chemical”
  • In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

    Keynote address at CSICOP conference, 1987.
  • 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.

  • The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

    "Betting On a Bass That Belts Them Out; Singing Fish Becomes Season’s Unlikely Hit" by Darragh Johnson, The Washington Post, July 30, 2000.
  • Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

    Progress   Theory   Built  
    "The Scientist As Rebel". Book by Freeman Dyson, 2006.
  • The scientist is a practical man and his are practical (i.e., practically attainable) aims. He does not seek the ultimate but the proximate. He does not speak of the last analysis but rather of the next approximation. His are not those beautiful structures so delicately designed that a single flaw may cause the collapse of the whole. The scientist builds slowly and with a gross but solid kind of masonry. If dissatisfied with any of his work, even if it be near the very foundations, he can replace that part without damage to the remainder.

    Beautiful   Science   Men  
  • I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

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

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