Quotes About Progress

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Our land has grown a magnificent liberty tree and its fruit is the richest ideal of the human soul. But, we cannot go on forever merely eating the fruit of the liberty tree or it will die. We must begin to plant some seeds.

A combination of many stupidities can end up being a worthy man if he learns from his stupidities.

Aquel pueblo avanzaba con una decisión que arrastraba consigo todas las simpatías del mundo civilizado. La joven Israel se alzaba como un faro para la humanidad, demostrando cuánto se podía conseguir con fuerza de voluntad y amor.

Every German must face the past before he can face the future.

How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?

Our species had to engage in complex cooperative behavior in order to survive in the wild, and—as I keep reminding my teenage children—pointing and grunting get you only so far.

a thousand years without a bath.

paleontological evidence suggests that the early farmers had more spinal issues, worse teeth, and more anemia and vitamin deficiencies—and died younger—than the populations of human foragers who preceded them.

Michael Jordan once said, "I've missed more than nine thousand shots in my career. I've lost almost three hundred games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

It is always heartening when a fundamentalist of any religion professes a belief in evolution

Today we know that there are other solar systems only tens of light years away. Had the Golden Age continued unabated, we might by now have sent probes exploring them. We might have landed on the moon in the year 969 instead of 1969. We might have an understanding of space and life that is unimaginable to us today. Instead, events occurred that would delay the progress begun by the Greeks by a millennium.

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Today we call our subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens, or "Wise, Wise Man.

in 1904 he applied for a promotion from patent clerk third class to patent clerk second class and was turned down.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die

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medieval scholars made surprising progress, despite living in an age in which people routinely judged the truth of statements not according to empirical evidence but by how well they fit into their preexisting system of religion-based beliefs—a culture that is inimical to science as we know it today.

That is, if the winners (at the left of the graph) continued to do better than the others, and the losers (at the right) worse, this graph should be nearly identical to the last.

In fact, the first clock to record hours of equal length wasn't invented until the 1330s. Before that, daylight, however long, had been divided into twelve equal intervals, which meant that an "hour" might be more than twice as long in June as in December (in London, for example, it varied from 38 to 82 of today's minutes).

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What I've learned, above all, is to keep marching forward because the best news is that since chance does play a role, one important factor in success is under our control: the number of at bats, the number of chances taken, the number of opportunities seized.

Or as the IBM pioneer Thomas Watson said, "If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.