Quotes About Progress

If the business of physics is ever finished, the world will be a much less interesting place in which to live . . .

Remember: the journey is the destination.

Bob Dylan sang, "He not busy being born is busy dying.

I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening.

It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.

It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.

Learning that flowered in days of yore In these our times is thought a bore. Once knowledge was a well to drink of; Now having fun is all men think of.

There is little to be gained from looking backward with disapproval at the consistency of human folly except to notice how each generation thinks itself immune to its predecessor's mistakes.

History up to the Renaissance had been something that one composed. History after the Renaissance, informed by methods for work and investigation, was increasingly something that one did.

Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.

Here the writer shows the progress and well-being of the line of Esau. He carefully notes that Esau is, in fact, "Edom." The repeated identification of Esau as Edom throughout the chapter prepares us for the future importance of Edom during Israel's later history.

The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination." "O futuro não é um lugar para onde estamos indo, mas um lugar que estamos criando. O caminho para ele não é encontrado, mas construído e o ato de fazê-lo muda tanto o realizador quanto o destino.

With God there are no dead ends, only training grounds.

In order to survive, all systems must evolve by providing greater and greater access to the currents that flow through them. This applies to all physical, biological and social systems that survive and thrive.... But let's take that one step forward... the systems just described are ... constantly evolving. This suggests another design principle: ... design for evolution rather than creating a static design optimizing for the present.

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

She had faith that each moment would be finer than the last. She believed that people were good

Like her, he cared more for the future than the past, more for hope than anger.

If you keep looking back, you'll keep walking into crap.

Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself — at the expense of the new demands of each new generation.

We are the makers of history, not its victims.

I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed.

In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

John Henry (Cardinal) Newman

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.