Quotes About Progress

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

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

The library is the temple of learning and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

You are only as good as your last mistake.

Entropy derives from the Greek "conversion", "mutation", "evolution", but also "confusion" and "shame" (this latter meaning one finds in the writings of Hippocrates in the form ).

Each day a day goes by.

Il Futuro ha un Cuore Antico

La vita è triste, tra quei grattacieli, con tutte quelle straordinarie comodità, e gli ascensori, le porte girevoli, la metropolitana, e sempre case e palazzi e strade, e mai un po' di terra. Viene la malinconia.

In conclusion, the good can be made better; the bad remains bad.

We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being.

You don't get to new places by following established tracks.

We not only learn, but we also learn to gradually change our conceptual framework and to adapt it to what we learn.

Here, in the vanguard, beyond the borders of knowledge, science becomes even more beautiful—incandescent in the forge of nascent ideas, of intuitions, of attempts. Of roads taken and then abandoned, of enthusiasms. In the effort to imagine what has not yet been imagined. Twenty

Science is born from this act of humility: not trusting blindly in our past knowledge and our intuition. Not believing what everyone says. Not having faith in the accumulated knowledge of our fathers and grandfathers. We learn nothing if we think that we already know the essentials, if we assume that they were written in a book or known by the elders of the tribe. The centuries in which people had faith in what they believed were the centuries in which little new was learned.

For everything that moves, time passes more slowly.

I believe that we need to adapt our philosophy to our science, and not our science to our philosophy.

We are the products of a long selection process of chemical, biological, and cultural structures that at different levels have interacted for a long time in order to shape the funny process that we are.

Scientific answers are not definitive: they are, almost by definition, the best ones that we have at any given time. Consider

Science is not reliable because it provides certainty. It is reliable because it provides us with the best answers we have at present. Science is the most we know so far about the problems confronting us. It is precisely its openness, the fact that it constantly calls current knowledge into question, which guarantees that the answers it offers are the best so far available: if you find better answers, these new answers become science.

What Copernicus, Newton, Einstein, and many others did was to build upon preexisting theories that synthesized empirical knowledge across vast fields of nature, and to find a way of combining and rethinking them, to improve the general picture.

Here, in the vanguard, beyond the borders of knowledge, science becomes even more beautiful—incandescent in the forge of nascent ideas, of intuitions, of attempts. Of roads taken and then abandoned, of enthusiasms. In the effort to imagine what has not yet been imagined.

That which seems intuitive to us now is the result of scientific and philosophical elaborations in the past.

we understand the world by studying change, not by studying things.