Quotes About Progress

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty. Neither do I believe that the spirit of adventure runs any risk of disappearing in our world.

We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions.

Your Heavenly Father will help you find the right path as you seek His guidance. Remember though, after you pray you must get off your knees and start doing something positive; head in the right direction! He will send people along the way who will assist you, but you must be doing your part as well.

When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than a simple photo op. Though the scene was clearly staged, it symbolized a crucial moment in American history.

I'd like to do some things over again. I never want to repeat anything that went well, though - I just want to do better at slightly different things.

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

We will never get to the flying car era. We will get to the era where we get flying drones that haul people, though.

Just remember, in 1973, we had no digital cameras, no personal computers, no Internet. The thought of putting a billion transistors in a cell phone was ludicrous.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

When I was learning to drive, I thought the big milestones were changing gear, changing lane, and three-point-turns.

I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

At the start of the process the idea is just a thought - very fragile and exclusive. When the first physical manifestation is created everything changes. It is no longer exclusive, now it involves a lot of people.

I thought happiness came from achievement.

Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire.

You get to a point where you have to start planning, when you cross that line where you have enough value to get someone's movie made if you attach yourself to it, you have to be very thoughtful and have to plan. When you're starting out, you're willing to do anything.

If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won't even be recognizable.

AI is witnessing an early innings in India. It has a thoughtful government, and India can race ahead if it chooses to.

I'm in favor of improving our bridges and roads, and am willing to work with our Democratic colleagues on a thoughtful and targeted approach.

As you grow as a company, you get layers and hierarchy that, in theory, should make your decisions a lot better. They get reviewed, and thoughtful people look at decision.

Every professional athlete has fear, doubts and negative thoughts. But people expect you to just ignore them and move forward.