Quotes About Progress

A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.

We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.

The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.

All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.

We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

A lot of people said Star Trek II was such a terrific movie and had a lot of unkind things to say about Star Trek I, but I don't think they realize that Star Trek II wouldn't have been so good if someone hadn't gone boldly where no one had gone before and showed us, in effect, what not to do when it was really important.

ROD RODDENBERRY There was a great quote that D. C. Fontana said about Nichelle Nichols and having a black officer on the bridge and what my father said to that. Apparently, he would get letters from the TV stations in the South saying they won't show Star Trek because there is a black officer, and he'd say, "Fuck off, then.

THOSE THAT HOPE LITTLE CANNOT GROW MUCH." —George MacDonald, The Hope of the Gospel

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

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You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.

Forty-four years ago

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.

The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by inertia.

The folly of building-centric urban renewal reminds us that cities aren't structures; cities are people.

twentieth-century urban America didn't belong to the skyscraper; it belonged to the car.

Infrastructure eventually becomes obsolete, but education perpetuates itself as one smart generation teaches the next. In the United States and Europe, industrialization rarely encouraged education.

Today, the US median income is still below where it was at the beginning of this century.

History tells us that inequality soars when societies develop.

By any numerical measure, humanity is becoming rapidly less poor. But between half and two-thirds of people in the West have been treading water – at best – for a generation. Tens of millions of Westerners will struggle to keep their heads above the surface over the coming decades. The spread of automation, including artificial intelligence and remote intelligence, which some call the fourth industrial revolution, is still in its early stages.