Quotes About Progress

New cities are born, so old ones must die. That seems logical to me.

If you ever seem to be sliding back into the very thing you've already been set free of, don't even waste time getting discouraged. Often what seems like the same old thing coming back again may be a new layer surfacing that needs to come off. You're not going backwards—you are going deeper.

There is no neutral position in the Lord. You are either becoming more like Christ every day or you're becoming less like Him. That's because whether you realize it or not, you're never standing still.

From a crude rocket in a weedy field to Explorer and beyond, the human race had broken the bonds of gravity to which they had been chained since the beginning of time.

History enters when the space of the possible is vastly larger than the space of the actual.

We are agents who alter the unfolding of the universe.

history itself arises out of the adjacent possible.

Some say that we should stop exploring space, that the cost in human lives is too great. But Columbia's crew would not have wanted that. We are a curious species, always wanting to know what is over the next hill, around the next corner, on the next island. And we have been that way for thousands of years.

I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be; But by the grace of God I am not what I was.1

Yesterday's deconstructions are often tomorrow's orthodox clichés.

Is it possible to be born old? Because I certainly feel it sometimes. How can we hope to stand against unstoppable progress; how can we possibly win a war against the forces of science?

trainees would improve their rate of gaining if they would halve their training volume per workout, double the rest days between workouts, get serious about delivering real effort in the reduced training time, and pay more attention to ensuring that sufficient calories and nutrients are consumed each day.

If the Republican Party had been in charge in 1776, we'd all still be celebrating the queen's birthday.

The new idea is here: Control is very old-fashioned, and our societies will change gradually as people come to see that the old system just doesn't work. I

I'm being uprooted," Dino said. "You're being transplanted," Viv replied, "and to a better home.

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

Hope has never trickled down. It has always sprung up.

In 1945, the United States inherited the earth.... at the end of World War II, what was left of Western civilization passed into the American account. The war had also prompted the country to invent a miraculous economic machine that seemed to grant as many wishes as were asked of it.

How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

blind obedience is never good for a civilization because when people stop thinking, it kills progress.

Knowledge advances as much through negative results and thwarted hypotheses as it does by theories that prove to be correct.

The only mistake is to not learn from a mistake.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

I hate nature. I really do. Nature is composed entirely of sticks, dirt, fall-down places, biting and stinging things, and savageries too numerous to list. And I'm not the only one who feels this way. Man has been building cities since the year oughty-ought, just to get away from this stuff.