Quotes About Progress

An American ship carrying mustard gas off Bari in Italy was bombed by the Germans 1942. It helped develop chemotherapy owing to the effect of the gas on the condition of the soldiers who had liquid cancers (eradication of white blood cells). But

It is not your skills that are to blame.

So the longer a technology lives, the longer it can be expected to live.

Every year that passes without extinction doubles the additional life expectancy.

Much progress comes from the young because of their relative freedom from the system and courage to take action that older people lose as they become trapped in life.

The future is in the past.

he who does not have a past has no future.6

feel that you are due an upgrade

Trial and error means trying a lot.

you make people feel stupid for blindly following habits, instincts, and traditions.

It contradicts modern methods and ideas of innovation and progress on many levels, as we tend to think that innovation comes from bureaucratic funding, through planning, or by putting people through a Harvard Business School class by one Highly Decorated Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (who never innovated anything) or hiring a consultant (who never innovated anything).

top-down is usually irreversible, so mistakes tend to stick, whereas bottom-up is gradual and incremental, with creation and destruction along the way

Today's materials allow us to avoid such constraint.

Likewise, seemingly uninteresting results that go unnoticed, can, years later turn out to be breakthroughs.

You cannot look at the future by naive projection of the past.

people don't learn so much from their—and other people's—mistakes; rather it is the system that learns by selecting those less prone to a certain class of mistakes and eliminating others.

but errors are costlier and delays are considerably longer than in the past.

It was of course picked up through natural selection, survivorship, apprenticeship to experienced practitioners, and one's own experience.

Why is it that science comes and goes and technologies remain stable?

Everything's a wheel, turning and turning, never stopping. The frogs is part of it, and the bugs, and the fish, and the wood thush, too. And people. But never the same ones. Always coming in new, always growing and changing, and always moving on. Thats the way it's suppose to be. That's the way it is. If we didn't move it out ourself, it would stay here forever, trying to get loose, but stuck. That's what us Tucks are, Winnie. We ain't part of the wheel anymore.

The first week of August was long over. And now, though autumn was still some weeks away, there was a feeling that the year had begun its downward arc, that the wheel was turning again, slowly now, but soon to go faster, turning once more in its changeless sweep of change.

What he'd wanted before had crumbled away, leaving the truth of what Kennedy did to him. It was new, and there was a long way to go before it could be right, but that was the path he wanted to take.

When you see a small change in your life it means its a huge change in personality and your trait

You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. Theories of Time and Space