The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

We welcome the scrutiny of the world – because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I’ve been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it’s ending ‚don’t ask, don’t tell,‘ making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

This young century will be liberty’s century.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

How young can you die of old age?

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

We’ve come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture us, we must carry this lesson to its conclusion: that is to say, accept that man was born entirely from the world – not only his flesh and bones but his incredible power of thought.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that’s rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character.

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

Quarks came in a number of varieties – in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks – they are called u-type, d-type, s-type.

I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn’t the thing.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

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

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

I am not young enough to know everything.

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.