Quotes About Progress

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

The human spirit must prevail over technology.

One cannot alter a condition with the same mind set that created it in the first place.

I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

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

Failing isn't bad when you learn what not to do.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Failure is success in progress

For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.

La vie c'est comme la bicyclette : quand on arrête de pédaler on tombe.

once you stop learning you start dying

The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake

Learn from yesterday, live for today and hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

A problem can't be solved with the same level of thinking that created it.

I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries - not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized.