Quotes About Progress

Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

John Babsone Lane Soule

Path's should be laid where people walk, instead of walking where paths are laid.

Though life's tuition is always ruinous, inexorably we learn.

The tombstone of coinage, arguably the most important measure in history, could read: Born Lydia, Anatolia, 7th century B.C. Died Washington, D.C., 20th century A.D.

some anyway, before Landry

Publicity is in essence, nostalgic. It has to sell the past to the future... According to publicity, to be sophisticated is to live beyond conflict.

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If your library is not "unsafe," it probably isn't doing its job.

Physical growth is a function of time. No two-year-old child has ever been six feet tall. Intellectual growth is a function of learning. Spiritual growth is neither a function of time or learning, but it is a function of obedience.

YOU GROW MORE FROM THE MOST CHALLENGING OFFENSES—THE ONES FOR WHICH YOU HAVE NOT BEEN TRAINED.

It also meant, however, that they couldn't drive without a seat belt, smoke in public spaces, or "cross a public roadway while immersed in a virtual reality." Not that much of that sort of thing went on just yet, anyway. Black

I'm not sure history has ended.

It will happen but it will take time.

All knowledge is conjectural and ... science progresses through new theories coming to replace older ones when it becomes clear that a new theory is able to make sense of a greater circle of phenomena than are comprehended and explained by the older one and is able to predict new phenomena more accurately.

Regular monitoring both of behavioural progress and of consequences is of course necessary if the organism is to learn.

Not only is progress of the overall activity monitored but progress of each bit of it is monitored as well.

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2 000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

They believed my story was over, but it was nearly the beginning.

I am for peace, retrenchment, and for reformthirty years ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party.

When we want things to stay the same, we'll always wind up playing catch-up. Better to go with the flow.