Quotes About Progress

As soon as students get a grade, the learning stops. We may not like it, but the research reviewed here shows that this is a relatively stable feature of how human minds work.

I didn't run away to come home the same. -Claudia

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

pity this busy monster, manunkind,not. Progress is a comfortable disease.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can see the whole trip that way.

You can't have an ending. It's impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You're never at the end until you die.

I hate it when things are unfinished.

It's better, I think, to move on. To look forward.

Mummy sighs. "We grew up, Dad," she says. "We grew up.

But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

The Machine proceeds - but not to our goal.

Who could help anything? Not only in sex, but in all things men have moved blindly, have evolved out of slime to dissolve into it when this accident of consequences is over.

Since man is a rational creature, he can only attain freedom through the exercise of his reason, something more difficult in the primitive state than in civilization.

The course of Logos in world history is dialectic, which means that every successful revolution leads to a civil war.

In the attempt to make scientific discoveries, every problem is an opportunity — and the more difficult the problem, the greater will be the importance of its solution.

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.