Quotes About Progress

That man is idle who can do something better.

By 1985, machines will be capable of doing any work Man can do.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.

Fear of change is a part of the state of fear man has ever lived in but out of which he has begun to escape. Civilization might be defined indeed as the steps in his escape.

I think they must mix blood, otherwise the human race is bound to degenerate. Mixing blood is marvelous. It makes strong and intelligent men. It takes away tired spirits.

If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month.But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.

If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass on to Western man the lost secret of life's sweetness.

Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.

I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.

Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.

The rockets... can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.

Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly at first, but in the end to conquer the whole of solar space.

Functionally, a man is somewhat like a bicycle. A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it's moving forward towards something.

I'm playing against men who are bigger and stronger than I'm used to. I've definitely got to bulk up at some point.

The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.

Man is always on the way.

Europe has certainly lost confidence in itself. This was something that, when I was a young man, we never imagined would happen.

A man must constantly exceed his level

Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.

It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it.

Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.