Quotes About Progress

Teorija je samo oru?e. Ako jedno ne završi posao, moraš da napraviš drugo.

Jer ako dodate samo malo na malo, i to ?esto ?inite, uskoro ?e malo postati veliko.

All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.

When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.

Past glories are poor feeding.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold.

It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests. Can you understand that? Can you understand that in averting the pitfalls and miseries that beset man, Eternity prevents men from finding their own bitter and better solutions, the real solutions that come from conquering difficulty, not avoiding it?

Education isn't something you can finish.

They were scientists enough to admit that they were wrong.

Don't you see? It's Galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration - a stagnation!

The advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

Changelessness is decay. A paradox. There is no decay without a change for the worse. Changelessness is a change for the worse

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be ...

Victories over ingrained patterns of thought are not won in a day or a year.

A knotty puzzle may hold a scientist up for a century, when it may be that a colleague has the solution already and is not even aware of the puzzle that it might solve.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

On Earth, we are unmanned by our longing for a pastoral past that never really existed; and that, if it had existed, could never exist again...on the Moon, there is no past to long for or dream about. There is no direction but forward.

you can't just move backward. You can't push the chicken back into the egg, wine back into the grape, the boy back into the womb. If you want the baby to let go of your watch, you don't just try to explain that he ought to do it—you offer him something he would rather have.