Quotes About Progress

We teach people in order to open up their minds and release their captive powers. But we cannot predict the result. Freedom - we free their minds from superstition. We give the people the keys of the future to act therein as they wish.

El mundo no queda nunca estático; cada año que pasa es un mundo diferente. Sin embargo, ahora que todo el mundo dice que vivimos en un mundo cambiante, creo que es una excusa para justificar los excesos.

As Aristotle said, long before Christ, a people who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. It is obvious that we are repeating it today.

Los hombres no aprenden las lecciones del pasado.

The day I finished 'Twilight ' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon ' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

Life is like walking you take one step at a time.

You'll always know more in the future than you know now.

The lesson I've learned the most often in life is that you're always going to know more in the future than you know now.

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.

I am much more interested in the process than results.

Ease of learning isn't the primary force in language evolution.

what is the role of human scientists in an age when the frontiers of scientific inquiry have moved beyond the comprehension of humans?

We need not be intimidated by the accomplishments of metahuman science. We should always remember that the technologies that made metahumans possible were originally invented by humans, and they were no smarter than we.

I can vividly recall the way, after he had connected its arterial hoses to a wall-mounted lung he kept in the laboratory, he was able to manipulate the actuating rods that protruded from the arm's ragged base, and in response the hand would open and close fitfully.

Based on our experience with human minds, it takes at least twenty years of steady effort to produce a useful person, and I see no reason that teaching an artificial being would go any faster.

instead, they sought to improve themselves so that they might become masters of their world.

Vivere con te sarà come mirare a un bersaglio in movimento. Sarai sempre un po' più in là di dove mi aspetto che tu sia.

We shouldn't automatically accept that natural is better, nor should we automatically presume that we can improve on nature. It's up to us to decide which qualities we value, and what's the best way to achieve those.

we're seeing more beauty in one day than our ancestors did in a lifetime. And the result is that beauty is slowly ruining our lives.

right now your digients, amazing as they are, have no marketable job skills, and you can't predict when they'll get any. How else are you going to raise the money you need?" How many women have asked themselves the same question, Ana wonders. "So it's the oldest profession.

The year following Blue Gamma's closure involves many changes for Derek.

But for me, science is the true modern cathedral, an edifice of knowledge every bit as majestic as anything made of stone.

Roads remain the essential network of the non-virtual world. They are the infrastructure upon which almost all other infrastructure depends. They are the paths of human endeavor.