Advancement Of Science Quotes by Adolf von Harnack, Eric Hoffer, Carl Sagan, James Bryant Conant, Aldous Huxley, Kedar Joshi and many others.

People complain that our generation has no philosophers. They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck and Albert Einstein. Upon appointment as the first president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, Berlin, formed for the advancement of science.
One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty-five years; that word is failure
In science it often happens that scientists say, “You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken…”
Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
My life is dedicated to the discovery of God, the advancement of science, and the pre-eminence of England.
The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.
Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.