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“Those who are really convinced that they have made progress in science would not demand freedom for the new views to continue side by side with the old, but the substitution of the new views for the old.”

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Book:Collected works of V. I. Lenin

Source: Collected works of V. I. Lenin

“Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.”

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Author:Freeman Dyson

“The pretention that some of us are better than others, I don't think is a very good thing. And who is contributing what to our progress in science is not so obvious and many who don't get that Nobel Prize are better than people... than some of us that do get the Nobel Prize. I think we should not be interested in prizes, we should be interested in learning about nature.”

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Author:Jack Steinberger

“Reduction is at the heart of progress in science.”

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Book:Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences

Source: Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences

“Progress is made by trial and failure; the failures are generally a hundred times more numerous than the successes ; yet they are usually left unchronicled.”

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Book:Essays Biographical and Chemical

Source: Essays Biographical and Chemical

“Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.”

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Author:Francis Bacon

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”

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Book:Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization