Knowledge Advancement Quotes

No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated…. it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

Science moves fastest when there's plenty of debate and controversy.

Scientists are not these guys in lab coats deep in the inner bowels of universities and hospitals with their Bunsen burners. They're the people molding the culture that we live in, the future of our culture, and the technology we rely on every day. These are the rock stars of our time right now.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.

I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out ‘what does it all mean?’ I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world, if we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then, we’re better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened. That’s the only way to move forward.

Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.

Science has liberated the ideas of those that read and reflect ... Science is progressive.

science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.

Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men in different times are not so much the causes of the different success of their labours, as the peculiar nature of the means and artificial resources in their possession.

Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee of readiness for farther progress.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied. That is not a relativist's position, and it displays the sense in which I am a convinced believer in scientific progress.

A plantation seems a fit place for those ingenious spirits that being low in the world, are much clogged and oppressed about a livelihood. For the means of subsisting being easy there, they may have time and opportunity to gratify their inclinations, and thereby improve science and help nurseries of people

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential. If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. Let women stand where they may in the scale of improvement, their position decides that of the race.

Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.

We now know that if the crops fail, it was not caused by demons. Centuries of scientific dialogue has made a difference.

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.

Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.

Scientists expect to be improved on and corrected; they hope to be

The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.

It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

Science thrives on self-correction …. refutation almost always contains positive lessons that overwhelm disappointment.