Quotes About Progress

Le lingue evolvono nel senso della pigrizia.

Contate le vostre pagine, ragazzi, contate... anche i romanzieri lo fanno. [...] Contate le pagine... Si comincia meravigliandosi del numero di pagine lette, e poi si arriva a spaventarsi del poco che rimane da leggere. Solo 50 pagine! Vedrete... Non c'è nulla di più dolce di questa tristezza: Guerra e pace, due grossi tomi... e solo 50 pagine da leggere. Uno rallenta, rallenta, ma niente da fare... Natasha finisce per sposare Pierre Bezuchov, ed è la fine.

The secret to high performance and satisfaction is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

Real challenges are far more invigorating than controlled leisure.

I have to remind myself that I've always known this: Evolution is not for everybody.

Time is a landscape that stretches across all things. We're the ones who move across it.

Next time you're overwhelmed, just remind yourself that this isn't completely foreign. This isn't square one. Things are different, but they're still a little the same.

If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.

Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere out there that man was the climax toward which creation had been straining from the beginning? ...Very far from it. The universe went on as before, the planet went on as before. Man's appearance caused no more stir than the appearance of jellyfish.

Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way.

The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of course man is conquering space and the atom and the deserts and the oceans and the elements. According to your mythology, this is what he was BORN to do.

La imperfección de la ciencia es la clave de su progreso. Sin lugar para nuevas ideas, la ciencia de hoy sería la misma que la ciencia de ayer.

El conocimiento es neutral, la tecnología no lo es.

La ciencia nos ofrece una nueva visión del mundo que ha liberado el espíritu humano, o al menos tiene el potencial de hacerlo. Lo más importante de la ciencia es la ciencia misma, es decir, la forma de proceder que nos ha acercado a un profundo entendimiento de cómo es el mundo.

I mean I've seen 3D films so far and I think it's a long way to go before they replace actors. It's a funny thing with 3D, I haven't quite got it yet. Yet.

In 1979, only 40 percent of American men with at least a college degree had wives who also had at least graduated from college. By 2016 the comparable percentage was 70 percent.

Don't waste time fighting old wars.

When one is making an omelet it is necessary to break eggs. - Saladin

It's hard to go old-school in the modern world. Gabriel Allon

Indeed, there were more blank spots on the canvas than those covered with pigment. Gabriel effectively had to repaint the entire work, incorporating the small

Change is good, Nouredine. It keeps everyone on their toes. – Christopher Keller

Don't look back. You are never completely alone.

He used to say, 'Never be satisfied with what you know, only with what more you can find out.

If domesticating crops was an earth-changing advance, figuring out how to reproduce them came a close second.