Quotes About Progress

Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders:

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way

Hour by hour the caissons reach down to the rock of the earth and hold the building to a turning planet.

What is a stratosphere fourteen miles from the earth or a sunken glass house on the sea-bottom amid fish and feather- stars unless a bet that man can shove on beyond yesterday's record of man the hoper, the believer?

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

Men and women of the present day are, to those we might hope to bring into existence, what the pariah dogs of the streets of an Eastern town are to our own highly-bred varieties," Galton predicted.

They made a compelling case that height could serve as an economic barometer, recording the well-being of societies.

Careful imitation could also explain why hand axes managed to stay so similar to each other for over a million years. If Homo erectus simply looked over old hand axes to guess how to make them, they would have accidentally introduced little variations to their craft. Over a few thousand years, those mismatches would have caused the hand ax to drift far away from its original shape.

Thirteen thousand years ago it fell to Antarctica. It rested in the Allan Hills as the Ice Age glaciers retreated, farmers discovered agriculture, cities rose, and rockets shot into space.

There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself.

La lucha que cada uno libra contra su antiguo ser dura toda la vida.

Al fin y al cabo, ¿qué clase de ciencia es ésa, capaz de poner un hombre en la luna pero incapaz de poner un pedazo de pan en la mesa de cada ser humano?

None of us are what we once were.

Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own and humans will return to medieval savagery and to the general state of imbecility that slugs overcame back in the Pleistocene era. Our world will not die as a result of the bomb...it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything and a lousy joke at that.

Are you an idiot? I'm in training.

Del resto, che razza di scienza è quella che porta un uomo sulla Luna, ma non è in grado di garantire un pezzo di pane a tutti gli essere umani?

the day women are allowed to learn to read and write the world will become ungovernable.

none of us are what we once where

A televisão, amigo Daniel, é o Anticristo, e digo-lhe que bastarão três ou quatro gerações para que as pessoas não saibam nem dar peidos por sua conta...

History is biology's dumping ground

Kakva je to znanost koja može ?ovjeka poslati na Mjesec, a ne može staviti komad kruha na stol svakog ?ovjeka?

Habrá advertido que no tenemos electricidad, Óscar. Lo cierto es que no creemos demasiado en los adelantos de la ciencia moderna. Al fin y al cabo, ¿qué clase de ciencia es esa, capaz de poner un hombre en la Luna pero incapaz de poner un pedazo de pan en la mesa de cada ser humano? —A lo mejor el problema no está en la ciencia, sino en quiénes deciden cómo emplearla —sugerí.

Sigurno ste primetili da nemamo struju, Oskare. Mi zapravo ne verujemo mnogo u postignu?a savremene nauke. Na kraju krajeva, kakva je to nauka koja je kadra da ?oveka spusti na Mesec, a nije u stanju da spusti komad hleba na trpezu svakog ljudskog bi?a? Možda problem nije u nauci, negu u onima koji odlu?uju o tome kako da se ona primeni, primetio sam.

Are you an idiot?' she asked, in perfect Spanish. 'I'm in training,' I admitted.