Quotes About Progress

Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals.

Or so Feynman argued: the philosophers themselves, he said, were always a tempo behind, like tourists moving in after the explorers have left.

The information comes via evolution.

Not by accident, he made scientists seem less than perfect rationalists.

Human computers had no future, he saw:

What we call the past is built on bits. —John Archibald Wheeler

Samuel Butler had said a century earlier—and did not claim to be the first—that a hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. Butler was quite serious, in his way:

So by 1880, four years after Bell conveyed the words "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you," and three years after the first pair of telephones rented for twenty dollars, more than sixty thousand telephones were in use in the United States.

Actualmente, la información en -tiempo real- está considerada un derecho de nacimiento.

En el juego de la supervivencia algunos vehículos juegan mejor, maniobran mejor, y se propagan mejor que otros.

logarithmic tables as cheap as potatoes"—

the distinction between nerves and vessels was not demonstrated until the Third Century B.C., when it was made clear by Erasistratos.

And I could find other excuses to get out and sit on the crisp grass and look out over the airy roof of Yorkshire. It was like taking time out of life. Time to get things into perspective and assess my progress.

There are great days ahead!

The two of us stood gazing at the gleaming rows without any idea that it was nearly all useless and that the days of the old medicines were nearly over. Soon they would be hustled into oblivion by the headlong rush of the new discoveries and they would never return.

I often think that the Romans were fortunate; their civilization reached as far as hot baths without touching the fatal knowledge of machinery.

that he was both more and less experienced than the youngest new boy at the School might well be; and that, that paradox of age and youth, was what the world called progress.

Occasionally throughout the ages, the clouds of history show a rift and through it the sun of human betterment shines out for a few deceptive moments over a limited area.

Don't go back to less just because you are too impatient to wait for better.

I simply want to fix me, so we can fix us.

We can never know everything. Part of what we know is always wrong. Perhaps the most important part. A part of wisdom lies in knowing that. A part of knowledge lies in going on anyway.

Push your boundaries, that's what they're there for.

If we are worried about the future, put the past behind you, and find something worthwhile in your future.

I make mistakes like the next person. In fact, "I have learned all kinds of things from my mistakes. The one thing I never learned is how to stop making them.