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Scientific Progress goes boink? -- Bill Watterson
One can not impede scientific progress. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress. -- Robert Winston
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. -- Gaston Bachelard
The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved. -- John Bardeen
The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made. -- Robert Barany
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. -- Madame de Stael
I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes. -- Alan Dershowitz
Scientific progress is measured in units of courage, not intelligence. -- Paul Dirac
Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress. -- Freeman Dyson
Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. -- Bertrand Russell
In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas- and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed. -- Werner Heisenberg
Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity, of application of new ideas of scientific progress for the benefit of all. -- Linus Pauling
The UN is committed to the goal of ensuring that all nations share in economic, social, & scientific progress. It delivers humanitarian assistance to the victims of wars and natural disasters. -- Bill Bradley
Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown. -- Vannevar Bush
Only a small part of scientific progress has resulted from planned search for specific objectives. A much more important part has been made possible by the freedom of the individual to follow his own curiosity. -- Irving Langmuir
Scientific progress is the discovery of a more and more comprehensive simplicity... The previous successes give us confidence in the future of science: we become more and more conscious of the fact that the universe is cognizable. -- Georges Lemaitre
Mankind's survival is dependent on man's ability to solve the problems of racial injustice, poverty, and war; the solution of these problems is in turn dependent upon man's squaring his moral progress with his scientific progress, and learning the practical art of living in harmony. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world. -- Vannevar Bush
The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the scientific progress was so gigantic that it seems rash to predict that any of its successors can be more important in the life of any nation. -- Norman Lockyer
Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize. -- Hannah Arendt
Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success. Knowing that material & spiritual progress are essential to man, we must ceaselessly work for the equal attainment of both. It is only when a people strike an even balance between scientific progress & spiritual & moral advancement that it can be said to possess a wholly perfect and complete personality and not a lopsided one. -- Haile Selassie
I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment. -- Ernest Lawrence
Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public. -- Michael Polanyi
Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts. -- Ernst Mayr
All scientific progress requires a climate of strong skepticism. -- Jerry A. Coyne
For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure. -- Richard Cobden
That's the way progress works: the more we build up these vast repertoires of scientific and technological understanding, the more we conceal them. -- Steven Johnson
To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only. -- Richard P. Feynman
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. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language. -- Roman Jakobson
As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'. -- Sam Brownback

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