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Quotes About Progress

Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. And, naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate.
~ Frank Herbert
You cannot back into the future
~ Frank Herbert
You think that in a world without birds, men would not invent aircraft! What a fool you are! Men can invent anything!
~ Frank Herbert
History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Education helps but it's never enough. You also must run.
~ Frank Herbert
A seed blown on the wind could be tomorrow's willow tree.
~ Frank Herbert
What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking—there's the real danger. Look at how long you walked across this desert without thinking about your face mask.
~ Frank Herbert
They're in league with the future
~ Frank Herbert
Ignoring that which is false is also a knowing. Thus—learning. To learn is to grow and to grow is to live. You may practice forgetting and thus learn.
~ Frank Herbert
IF.' 'If you had only . . . If we had but. . .' He wanted to shout them into silence. 'Only fools prefer the past!
~ Frank Herbert
Business makes progress! Fortune passes everywhere!
~ Frank Herbert
as had happened so many times in the past, for every problem solved a new one was added. Beneath
~ Frank Herbert
A paz exige soluções, mas nunca alcançamos soluções vivas. Apenas trabalhamos para chegar a elas. Uma solução fixa, por definição, é uma solução morta. O problema com a paz é que ela tende a punir os erros em vez de recompensar a lucidez.
~ Frank Herbert
Ä°nsan, eski ac?lar?ndan, bir y?lan?n derisinden s?yr?ld??? gibi s?yr?lmal?d?r...yaln?zca yenilerini oluÅŸturmak ve onlar?n bütün s?n?rlamalar?n? kabul etmek için. Yönetimler için de durum böyledir...
~ Frank Herbert
La paz exige soluciones, pero nunca llegamos a alcanzar soluciones mientras vivimos; solo trabajamos para intentar alcanzarlas. Una solución fija es, por definición, una solución muerta. El problema con la paz es que tiende a castigar los errores en lugar de premiar los logros.
~ Frank Herbert
I distrust the extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat
~ Frank Herbert
they're destroying their environment. In the process, they're becoming not-men!
~ Frank Herbert
When force closes the mouth of inquiry," Duncan said, "that is the death of civilization.
~ Frank Herbert
When you stumble, you may regain your balance by jumping beyond the thing that tripped you.
~ Frank Herbert
The race knows its own mortality and fears stagnation of its heredity.
~ Frank Herbert
The Golden Path demands it. And what is the Golden Path? you ask. It is the survival of humankind, nothing more nor less.
~ Frank Herbert
The Guild navigators, gifted with limited prescience, had made the fatal decision: they'd chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation.
~ Frank Herbert
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. —FROM "COLLECTED SAYINGS OF MUAD'DIB
~ Frank Herbert
Le concept de progrès agit comme un mécanisme de protection destiné à nous isoler des terreurs de l'avenir.
~ Frank Herbert
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~ Frank Herbert