Quotes About Progress

Social justice is about freeing people from the clutches of witch doctors and superstition....

you can't reconcile religion with modern life, with all the knowledge we have, with science....

And it holds us back from better things, but mostly from coming to terms with the truth about who we've become, from embracing everything science has taught us and continues to teach us, from forcing us to make ourselves accountable for our own actions.

A lot of people are open to new things, as long as they look like the old ones.

Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit.

L'instruction! Voyez ce que c'est, monsieur, que l'instruction. On apprend quelque chose à l'école, on se donne même du mal, beaucoup de mal, pour apprendre quelque chose à l'école, et puis vingt ans après, ou même avant, ce n'est plus ça, les choses ont changé, on ne sait plus rien, alors vraiment ce n'était pas la peine. Aussi je préfère penser qu'apprendre.

We all have a shovel in life. Some of us use it to build a pyramid with a great view, and some dig a hole to nowhere.

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

It's a tiresome proposition, having to take up the work of the Enlightenment all over again, but it's happened on your watch.

If there is such a thing as philosophical progress, then why – unlike scientific progress – is it so invisible? Philosophical progress is invisible because it is incorporated into our points of view. What was torturously secured by complex argument comes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance.

The only object we truly possess is our own mind. The only pleasure over which we have complete dominion is the progress of our own understanding.

I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.

I love this... being busy and working every day.

There was a time when everybody was busy doing, 'What is she wearing? How is she looking?' I am happy that is changing now.

Sitting on my butt waiting on opportunities won't do me any good.

We didn't have any simulators. We had to do it on the track all the time. Now they've got simulators for everything. And, if they have an accident or go off, then you just press a button, re-set, and away you go again.

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.

When I went to college in the 1970s, the Women's Liberation movement was all the buzz.

Tottenham I really enjoyed the first year, and by the time I left we had almost as many points as in the season before when we broke the points record. But these are things that people don't evaluate, only I know about.

Life got very good - we went from living in a one-bedroom apartment to a five-bedroom mansion by the time I was in high school. I had everything I wanted growing up, though all I wanted was music stuff - drums, a PC, turntables.

My goal is to be really incredible by the time I'm 70.

I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections.

I think part of the process of putting out a record is always looking back because, by the time a song comes out, it's been a year since you wrote it.

By the time I got to George Washington University, I had been a straight-A student in high school.