Quotes About Growth

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.

For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yer to yere; And out of olde bokis, in good fey, Comyth al this newe science that men lere.

Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.

The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that he has much to learn, but much also to unlearn.

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants." These days we stand on each other's feet!

Science advances funeral by funeral

The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.

Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers.

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

...They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.

Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.

Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

I have examples of people who find their way back later on in life, in their 30's, 40's, it can happen in your 50's, I'm sure it can. It's not really a science. It's maybe more of an art.

The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.

Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science.

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.