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• The progress of science is often affected more by the frailties of humans and their institutions than by the limitations of scientific measuring devices.
  The scientific method is only as effective as the humans using it....
• Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. -- John F. Kennedy
• The men and women are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
• Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- The History of England, Book iv...
• Non-fiction often is more unrealistic than fiction.
• Progress does not consist in replacing a theory that is wrong with one that is right.
  It consists of replacing a theory that is wrong with one that is more subtly wrong....
• Progress does not consist of replacing a theory that is wrong with one that is right.
  It consists of repacing a theory that is wrong with one that is more subtly wrong....
• History records no more gallant struggle than that of humanity against the truth.
• Any new form is always longer and more complicated than the one it replaces.
  -- Hanson's Law on Progre...