Quotes About Development

It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest themselves in the commonplace.

Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.

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.

Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants." These days we stand on each other's feet!

Science advances funeral by funeral

The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.

Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers.

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.

The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker.

We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science.

Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics.

All I ever aim to do is to put the Development hypothesis in the same coach as the creation one. It will only be a question of who is to ride outside & who in after all.

There are two ways in which a science develops; in response to problems which is itself creates, and in response to problems that are forced on it from the outside.

Ensuring that the US continues to lead the world in science and technology will be a central priority for my administration.

Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of human endeavor put together.

The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.

Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.

We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they advance.

Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles.