Quotes About Progress

the progress of science depends much less upon either theoretical considerations or systematic investigation than is commonly believed, but rather on the transmittal of reliable information, gained by chance or insight, from one set of men to their successors.

The chief thing is to begin, after all—after which the chief thing is to finish.

You know what the biologists say: Man has reached the stage where he evolves through his machines.

Each time you gain your hearts desire, your heart shall reach for something higher.

It was in this fashion that I began the long journey by which I have backed into the throne.

The past cannot be found in the future where it is not

The process is the goal.

There was something very American about this ability to dwell constantly in the realm of the improvable superlative.

Designer of information superhighways need to take the occasional stroll down memory lane.

The only good classification is a living classification.

Till we be roten, kan we not be rypen?

Lo que comenzó mal, rara vez y con muchísima dificultad concluirá bien.

History suggests that we had very little hope until the social institutions of science arose. Before science, there was no apparent cumulative progress in the accuracy of human belief systems. After science, everything changed.

The story of the past generation has been that the right has won politically and the left has won culturally.

The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

We stand at the gates of an important epoch, a time of ferment, when spirit moves forward in a leap, transcends its previous shape and takes on a new one..... A new phase of the spirit is preparing itself. Philosophy especially has to welcome its appearance and acknowledge it, while others, who oppose it impotently, cling the past.

War is progress, peace is stagnation

By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.

The very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.

The spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.

Education in its early stages always begins with fault-finding, but when it is complete, it sees the positive element in everything.

Wars are terrible, but necessary, for they save the state from social petrification and stagnation

The march of GOD in the world, that is what the state is.