Quotes About Progress

But things worked out. Everything works out. Though sometimes they work out sideways.

What is progress? That we can drive faster on the roads? No, progress is the rest the body needs and the peace the soul requires. Progress is man"s well being.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

As study after study has taught us, there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

EDUCATION IS A HUMAN RIGHT WITH IMMENSE POWER TO TRANSFORM

EDUCATION IS THE PREMISE OF PROGRESS

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.

Right. Mutation is the trigger that moves evolution forward. So, how do mutations happen?

When a new object emerges that satisfies the same purpose as an older one, the older one falls into obsolescence.

Irgendwann jedoch mußten die Philosophen sich einer schlich­ten, peinlicherweise unbestreitbaren Tatsache stellen und mit ihr fertigwerden: Nicht eine der Fragen, die zweieinhalb Jahr­ tausende lang die europäische Philosophie lebendig erhalten haben, ist je zur allgemeinen Zufriedenheit gelöst worden - sie alle sind noch immer umstritten oder wurden per Dekret der Philosophen für hinfällig erklärt.

Those who wish to transform the world must be able to transform themselves.

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man: It is we.

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.

Cuán reconocido estaría a mi destino con tal de que en mi vida hubiese logrado abrir un solo sendero, que, varias generaciones después, siguiera siendo pisado por seres humanos, y cuánto más si dejara un algo que en un futuro lejano ayudara también a otros seres humanos, fueran quienes fuesen, a "elevarse un poco hacia las alturas"!

Imagination," Zuse used to say, "is the key to all progress.