Quotes About Progress

If all the bishops in the world had been asked, two hundred years ago, whether slavery is allowed by God, 95 per cent of them, including the Pope, would have said, 'Yes, slavery is allowed'. Yet in spite of their number, they would all have been wrong.

Se un libro cambia è soltanto perché siamo cambiati noi e lo affrontiamo in modo diverso.

he regarded the automobile speculatively and coolly, as if it were the future.

Hij begreep dat hij in die toekomst zou veranderen, maar hij zag de toekomst zelf als het instrument van verandering en niet als het doel ervan.

He conceived himself changed in that future, but he saw the future itself as the instrument of change rather than its object.

The way to knowledge is a long journey, and the goal is distant; and one must visit many places along the way, if he is to know that goal when he arrives at it.

Every day, and in every way, we're getting meta and meta.

We presuppose two things that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.

It is because nature is ruthless, hideous, and cruel beyond belief that it was necessary to invent civilisation.

Your work is to survive. Neither his kind, nor his kind of thinking will survive long. They are the crown of creation, they are ambition fulfilled—they have nowhere more to go. But life is change, that is how it differs from the rocks, change is its very nature. Who, then, were the recent lords of creation, that they should expect to remain unchanged?

But it is an inescapable conclusion that life has to be dynamic and not static. Change is bound to come one way or another.

And your oil engines are just a deplorable perversion – dirty, noisy, poisonous, and the cars you drive with them are barbarous, dangerous..." Chocky in "Chocky

You can't kill an idea the way they try to. You can keep it down awhile, but sooner or later it'll come out. Now what you've got to understand is that the wheel's not evil. Never mind what the scared men all tell you. no discovery is good or evil until men make it that way." -The Wheel, John Wtndham

And so the one in our garden continued its growth peacefully, as did thousands like it in neglected spots all over the world. It was some little time later that the first one picked up its roots and walked.

every day it was tomorrow that I'd be able to do it, and each day it became more difficult.

Soldiering'll soon be nothing but wizards and wires.

Only so few years ago,' Josella said reflectively, 'people were wailing about the way those bungalows were destroying the countryside. Now look at them.' 'The countryside is having its revenge, all right,' I said.

Byla to zemÄ›, na které mohl ?lovÄ›k pracovat a vzdÄ›lávat ji a stále v ní nachdádzet budoucnost.

Self-pity and a sense of high tragedy are going to build nothing at all. So we had better throw them out at once, for it is builders that we must become.