Quotes About Progress

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The world doesn't get better on its own. It gets better because people make it better: penny by penny, vote by vote, and one lesson at a time. So: Start where you are. Use what you have. Help who you can.

Consciously or unconsciously, teachers tend to focus their attention on learners who seem to be doing well. That extra attention increases the odds that they will, while the corresponding neglect of other learners leaves them further and further behind

When you're at a wall, start climbing.

The pioneering anthropologist Louis Leakey once stated, "Without an understanding of who we are, we cannot truly advance.

a professional project, relationship, or school assignment doesn't turn out the way that was expected, we can always learn from our experiences and do things differently the next time around.

We're "part of a universe that is a work in progress." In this unfinished creation, "we are tiny patches of the universe looking at itself—and building itself.

Rosebush after rosebush fell before their marching feet, plowed down by the vanguard.

The therapy had at first yielded no results, no reactions from the catatonic child.

On my team we often reminded ourselves that for each task we have two goals: first, accomplish the task, but also to improve the way it's done in the future.

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.

Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.

But the answers come when they will, one piece at a time.

When the chemistry is right, all the experiments work.

Scientists study the world as it is; engineers create the world that has never been. —THEODORE VON KÁRMÁN

The universe of artifacts was a human one.

Feather to fire,fire to blood Blood to bone,bone to marrow Marrow to ashes,ashes to snow

Life on earth is hard. Competition for the necessities of life is fierce. How ridiculous to believe that the law of harsh survival would not be true elsewhere, or that it would be negated by the progress of technology in an advanced civilization...

There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.

I hate the calendar, which is both a circle and a straight line, a wheel and an arrow, grinding each anniversary, each day a reminder of my failures, my lost plans, unfulfilled objectives and wishes, the days aren't taken off the calendar, subtracted one by one, but added, another small stone accumulated, another foot moved ahead, the arrow flying forward instead of falling back to earth, when all I want is a complete stop.

Truly barren is a secular education. It is always in labor, but never gives birth.

Not all engagement with our past is characterized by crisis.

We have had a number of books casting the acid of angry rejection over the spirit of our age. They are not in error; it is only that in many cases they do not get us anywhere.