scientific progress
Discovery moves forward
Scientific progress is the accumulation of knowledge about the natural world through observation, experimentation, and theory-building.
The phrase implies forward movement—that science advances toward greater understanding, better explanations, and more useful applications.
The vaccine represents decades of scientific progress.
Whether progress is steady or occurs in revolutionary leaps remains debated among historians and philosophers of science.
- paradigm shiftWholesale replacement of frameworks
- breakthrough momentDecisive instant of progress
- testEvaluative examination
- theoryExplanatory set of principles
- discoveryAct of finding something
hypothesis · replication · engineering · invention · data analysis · bioethics · education · exemplar · experimentation · double blind study · clinical trials · lab work · healthcare · puzzle-solving · peer review · peer reviewed · falsifiability · sample
- progresspromotion, raise, ongoing, advancement, improvement
- Historical Trendspopulation growth, urbanization, industrialization, globalization, migration
- Metanarrativesmodernity, Marxism, liberalism, Christianity, utopianism
- 1800sVictorian era, Napoleon, Gilded Age, Queen Victoria, Industrial Revolution
- foresightforesight, precognition, futurology, forethought, premonition
- H.G. WellsThe Time Machine, The Invisible Man, War of the Worlds, Invisible Man, Dr. Moreau
scientific progressstagnation
Absence of flow or progress
standstill · inertia · arrested development · paralysis · stasis
scientific progressdogma
Unchallengeable official beliefs
religious dogma · blind faith · anti-intellectualism · obscurantism · superstition
scientific progressregression
Return to former state
decline · deterioration · backsliding · decay · retrogression
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