Quotes About Progress

Werner Pfennig grows up three hundred miles northeast of Paris in a place called Zollverein: a four-thousand-acre coalmining complex outside Essen, Germany. It's steel country, anthracite country, a place full of holes. Smokestacks fume and locomotives trundle back and forth on elevated conduits and leafless trees stand atop slag heaps like skeleton hands shoved up from the underworld.

Se pelo menos a vida fosse como um romance de Júlio Verne... e você pudesse passar as páginas para a frente, quando precisasse, para descobrir o que estava para acontecer.

A ciência, meu rapaz, é construída com erros, mas são erros úteis, porque levam, pouco a pouco, até à verdade.

We are the bridge generations, the intermediaries, the ones who do the work so that our descendants will be ready.

Somewhere in these streets, plastic was invented. X-rays were discovered, continental drift was identified. What marvels does science cultivate here now?

Casi todas las especies que han existido alguna vez se han extinguido en el presente. No hay ningún motivo para pensar que con la raza humana vaya a ocurrir algo distinto.

Every process must by law decay.

Siga a lógica. Todo efeito tem sua causa, e todo problema tem sua solução. Toda fechadura tem sua chave. Você pode voltar para Paris ou permancer aqui ou seguir em frente.

Así es como se miden, quizás, las cosas, por una serie de abandonos que confirmamos, contra toda esperanza, en poder llegar a aceptar algún día.

I've flung a fly myself, he continues. I'm still learning it. I suppose we're all still learning. You learn and learn and then you die and you haven't learned half of it.

Did time move forward, through people, or did people move forward through it, like clouds across the sky?

I wouldn't trade the twenty-first century for any other. We have toilet paper and pasteurization and Novocain and Mexican avocados all winter long. And plenty of mysteries remain: what causes premature labor, or what exactly the universe is made of. The biology of deep oceans, the nature of gravity, the reason we sleep, the mechanisms of migration; thousands of questions still await answers.

A line comes back to Marie-Laure from Jules Verne: Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Insecure people don't get threatened by dreams; they get threatened by dreamers who move forward into those dreams.

If our beliefs don't evolve and shift and grow during our lives then I have to wonder if we are actually paying attention.

You're not defined by your past experiences. You're prepared by them.

don't get mad at your failures, get up and do it again tomorrow.

Falling down is the first step towards coming back stronger

start today so that everything works out tomorrow

Resistance to change has been strong.

It was about growing in more efficient ways. That seemed like a reasonable idea. Why would it meet with such fierce resistance?

Theories in the natural sciences which have been replaced by others which do the same job better are of no interest to the current practice of science. This cannot be the case where those theories have helped to constitute what they interpret or explicate. The

Una adicción es una incapacidad de colonizar el futuro y, en cuanto tal, realiza una transgresión de las primeras preocupaciones con las que deben lidiar reflexivamente los individuos.

People don't always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don't advance in life.