Quotes About Progress

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.

Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

A aquisição de habilidades exige um ambiente regular, uma oportunidade adequada para praticar e um feedback rápido e inequívoco sobre a precisão dos pensamentos e ações.

We cover long distances by taking our time and conduct our mental lives by the law of least effort.

Sometimes scientific progress leaves us more puzzled than we were before.

We had progressed from "completely useless" to "moderately useful.

success = talent + luck great success = a little more talent + a lot of luck

You know you have made a theoretical advance when you can no longer reconstruct why you failed for so long to see the obvious. Still, it took us years to explore the implications of thinking about outcomes as gains and losses.

but the chapters we wrote first were probably easier than others

important principle of skill training: rewards for improved performance work better than punishment of mistakes.

Psychology has come a long way.

the word happiness does not have a simple meaning and should not be used as if it does. Sometimes scientific progress leaves us more puzzled than we were before.

objective ignorance accumulates steadily the further you look into the future.

rewards for improved performance work better than punishment of mistakes.

People in their 30s know where the world is going because they're going to do it. I'm in my 80s so I have no idea.

The increase in man's power over his environment has not been accompanied by a concomitant improvement of his ability to make rational use of that power

Inzwischen geht es ihm besser, manche Tage seien schon fieberfrei, auch die Träume, in denen er Baron Humboldt erwürge, zerhacke, erschieße, anzünde, vergifte oder unter Steinen begrabe, würden seltener.