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The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because history is written by the victorious.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Much of contemporary science is really the length and shadow of the technology we apply.

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

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

Since the Renaissance, a concept called 'progress' has been baked into our society. Progress - founded on an accumulation of knowledge through experience (and in the case of science, through experiment). To build on the past rather than endlessly relive it. That's what separates us from the beasts.

We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a living and growing body of knowledge; but art on the contrary has many times run its course to an end, and exhausted its vital power.

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.