Quotes About Progress

we could view this global pandemic as a spur to global cooperation and action.

There is pride in good government.

Government investments in science, technology, and infrastructure have slumped sharply

The number of people on the planet has risen fivefold since 1900, while the average lifespan has doubled.

never really experiencing the true costs of its mistakes—until now. America is successful enough never to collapse, but it could slowly edge downward

War and organized violence have declined dramatically over the last two decades.

Harvard's polymath professor Steven Pinker argues "that today we are probably living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.

Cities are an ideal way to organize human beings for modern life—allowing them to mingle, work, and play, all in the same place.

E. M. Forster's science fiction story "The Machine Stops." Written in 1909, it feels eerily prescient in 2020.

Mach dir nicht die Mühe besser zu sein als deine Zeitgenossen oder deine Vorfahren. Versuch nur besser zu sein als du selbst.

History is not was, it is.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

New lives always begin tomorrow, […] Never now.

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Aprende mucho en el colegio, Txiki. Tú aprende y aprende. No pares. Si no aprendes estás perdido, hazme caso.

Una frase de C.S. Lewis en el Moleskine: «La tarea del educador moderno no es cortar selvas, sino regar desiertos».

Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps.

Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, look at me move.

I do not evolve, I simply journey.

Afinal, se coisas boas se vão é para que coisas melhores possam vir. Esqueça o passado, desapego é o segredo!

O que é certo é que entre um homem vulgar e um macaco há menos diferença que entre um homem vulgar e um homem realmente culto.

Nunca chegar implica não chegar nunca

Everything comes from humanity and humanity is always the same — changeable but incapable of perfection, vacillating but incapable of progress.