Quotes About Progress

We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise… Emily Dickinson Aspiration

Edinburgh House. He had heard that in its industrial heyday, Corby had had

We are creating at this moment what our tomorrow will be

We live with the past because we have to, but we don't have to live in it.

widening gap between knowledge and the moral maturity of mankind. And he foresaw disaster if the gap was not narrowed.

The dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

The company increased as light was let into the house. But

It was the middles that gave her pause. This, for all its forward momentum, this was a middle. The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other.

And even as the chariot of time hustles me along, I never forget that Bob Caro is coming up from behind with volume five of LBJ. I hope he makes it. I hope I make it.

Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing

Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences of nature. Receive new thoughts with hospitality. Let us advance.

There is no harmony between religion and science. When science was a child, religion sought to strangle it in the cradle. Now that science has attained its youth, and superstition is in its dotage, the trembling, palsied wreck says to the athlete: "Let us be friends." It reminds me of the bargain the cock wished to make with the horse: "Let us agree not to step on each other's feet.

The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves.

A monstrous fallacy of time, so ingrained that it is almost automatic, is the idea that we necessarily learn more and more about important human experiences as time passes.

until recently our artists did better than the cave painters.

Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Success is never final, failure is never ending

What happens when the future has come and gone?

If you can achieve puberty, you can achieve a past.

I used to do machine language programming in the lights on the front panel of a computer; now I do higher-dimensional type theory. It's a little bit crazy.