Quotes About Progress

Don't take your intuitions and ideas to be "natural": they are often the products of the ideas of audacious thinkers who came before us.

Time passes more slowly for the one who keeps moving.

Se non si perde tempo non si arriva da nessuna parte, cosa che i genitori degli adolescenti purtroppo dimenticano spesso.

Lo que nos hace avanzar es la duda y no la certeza.

For the first time in the history of mankind, an experiment is made. Experimental science begins with Galileo.

One hundred thousand years ago our species left Africa, compelled perhaps by precisely this curiosity, learning to look ever farther afield. Flying over Africa by night, I wondered if one of these distant ancestors setting out toward the wide-open spaces of the North could have looked up into the sky and imagined a distant descendant flying up there, pondering on the nature of things, and still driven by his very same curiosity.

It is always heat and only heat that distinguishes the past from the future.

The Einstein who makes more errors than anyone else is precisely the same Einstein who succeeds in understanding more about nature than anyone else.

El pensamiento científico se nutre de la capacidad de ver las cosas de manera distinta de cómo las veíamos antes

If you want to truly advance the path of knowledge, you must not just revere your master, study, and build on his teachings. You must seek out his mistakes.

If Planck is the father of the theory, Einstein is the parent who nurtured it.

Fare scienza è una successione di delusioni, cose che non funzionano, idee sbagliate, esperimenti che non riescono, conti che non tornano. di tanto in tanto punteggiata da momenti di gioia.

One of my most deeply held assumptions about human life is that without freedom of thought humans cannot fully evolve.

Ang mga itinutulak mong palayo… lumalayo.

We have been marching for the last one hundred and fifty years. We sacrifice our individual liberties, and sometimes we fail and suffer. Sometimes we divide into separate groups and our methods conflict, though we all aim at one common goal. The significant thing is that we march on without turning back. What we want is peace not violence, We know that we thrive and prosper only in peace.

Science is making the world get more and more expensive. When science brings out a new gadget it costs more than the others. People have to earn more to buy it. So science is making the world more difficult, more complex. It makes people run more. What we need is to rest more, talk more, walk more, fuck more and enjoy things in life more. There's a limit to what Europeans call technological and industrial development. When that

Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.

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If you look at history, you see that human flourishing exploded beginning about the time two things first appeared: the new American republic and free market capitalism. If you plot the history of human prosperity going back over a thousand years, what you see is a flat line hovering just above zero until the late eighteenth century; then the line turns upward, and it hasn't turned back.

Believe me, if it can be digitized, it will be.

Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.

No one is perfect. I know there is stuff that I need to work on, and not just one thing, but my game overall. Everything can get better.

When you look back, recap this whole season it's just some detail-oriented things that we kind of got to fix. We're right there. I believe we're right as a team, as a unit, the guys we have on this team, we're right there. I'm a big believer in that. I'm very confident.

With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.