Quotes About Progress

I am going to build something big for you.

Progress will only get a guy so far, and it will never move beyond the wall of extinction.

You know, nothing ever goes back exactly the way it was. Things just expand and contract. Like the universe, like breathing. But you'll never fill your lungs up with the same air twice. Sometimes, it would be cool if you could pause and rewind and do over. But I think anyone would get tired of that after one or two times.

Apollo has something to teach us as we enter a new century of genetic modification, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology. It's a cautionary tale about that most fundamentally human of human tragedies .. wanting something so badly that you end up destroying it.

Joey told me nothing ever goes back exactly the way it was, that things expand and contract – like breathing, but you could never fill your lungs up with the same air twice.

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.

Find a person who is as successful as you'd like to be, ask them what to do, do it and work hard.

According to Carl Sagan: "Maxwell's equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.

As we move about in space, we are also moving forward in time. This means we effectively navigate a path through spacetime called a world line.

Perfection cannot be achieved by men," he told me. "Our highest calling is the pursuit of perfection. My haiku will be finished when I die, but it will never be perfect.

Roots are nice, but a tree can't run.

Countries rise to power and then fall into triviality.

Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.

By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.

Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200 000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.

Authenticity is fluid. Today's innovation is tomorrow's authenticity.

I'd realized that the surest way forward was to burn all the bridges behind.

My fitness is good. I hope to improve it even further during training.

Life is like that; all things come to an end. There are some trees where owls have nested for hundreds of years, and yet at some point they leave it empty, don't return there.

It is better to go forward without a goal, than to have a goal and stay in one place, and it is certainly better than to stay in one place without a goal.

Lepiej bez celu i?? naprzód ni? bez celu sta? w miejscu, a z pewnoÅ›ciÄ… o niebo lepiej, ni? bez celu siÄ™ cofa?.

There, where mountains tower today, one day there will be seas; there, where today seas surge, will one day be deserts. But stupidity will remain stupidity.

Va'esse deireádh aep eigean, va'esse eigh faidh'ar. (Something ends, something begins.)