Quotes About Progress

The future is 1/39 as long as the past.

As a scientist, you must embrace the inconstancy of knowledge.

America will aim no higher than the creation and aggressive marketing of minor consumer products that replace similar, and perfectly satisfactory, consumer products. "America may be losing a competitive edge in many enterprises, from cars to space," riffed National Public Radio host Scott Simon in the summer of 2010, "but as long as we can devise a five-bladed, mineral-oil-saturated razor, we face the future well-shaved.

School is not only a place to learn, but a place to learn how to learn.

Imagine a world where nations find the search for life in the universe more interesting than the taking of life on Earth.

No day before October 10, 1582, actually occurred on the Gregorian calendar for that was when the calendar was implemented officially.

For generations, Americans have expected something new and better in their lives with every passing day—something that will make life a little more fun to live and a little more enlightening to behold. Exploration accomplishes this naturally. All we need to do is wake up to this fact.

Nowadays our mobile phones relay microwaves.

Not until 1987 is homosexuality removed entirely from the formal list of mental "disorders" compiled by the American Psychiatric Association.12 Computers

By 2017, Star Wars had barely made it past the concept stage.

If it weren't for Jupiter, you can justifiably question whether Earth could have ever made it from simple life to complex life." ?

We will have very smart cities by the year 2020…

If you can't have ownership, no one's going to go out there and extract the materials, and the loser is humanity.

The smartphone may be the single greatest invention in the history of inventions. In 2020 there are three billion of them in a world of eight billion people. Before 2007 there were zero.

No changes are permanent, but change is.

From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.

From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.

We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are.

Our Society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of. It's an inevitability tourists can't help but realize when visiting Mayan ruins, Egyptian ruins, Roman ruins. How long will it be before someone is visiting American ruins?

But I couldn't commit to the time. I needed to resuscitate my career.

Instead of putting others down, try improving yourself instead. The only person you have a right to compete with is you.

Life's too short to be stuck in your own past

What are borders, after all, but checkpoints letting you know that you've reached a new stage in your adventure? Well

If you're not being criticized, you're probably not doing anything exceptional.