Quotes About Progress

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.

History, by appraising. ..[the students] of the past, will enable them to judge of the future.

Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

A republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

The generation which commences a revolution can rarely complete it.

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and governments to gain ground.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

There is no reason to believe that we are now on a higher intellectual or spiritual level than during ancient times.

Good companies embrace a culture of mini-failures.

For an individual, one of the definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again in the same way and expecting different results. For a government, such behaviour is called...policy.

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.

Le Verrier left the solar system larger than he found it - one both better and less completely understood.

The enterprise of making sense of the material world turns on a key question: what happens when something observed in nature doesn't fit within the established framework of existing human knowledge?

Science is unique among human ways of knowing because it is self-correcting. Every

Transhumanism encapsulates a long-lived error among the headliners of science: in a world without a destination, we cannot even break ground on our Tower of Babel, and no amount of rush and hurry on our part will change that. That we are going nowhere is not a curable condition; that we must go nowhere at the fastest possible velocity just might be curable, though probably not. And what difference would it make to retard our progress to nowhere?

What we do, as a conscious species, is set markers for ourselves. Once we reach one marker, we advance to the next—as if we were playing a board game we think will never end, despite the fact that it will, like it or not. And if you are too conscious of not liking it, then you may conceive of yourself as a biological paradox that cannot live with its consciousness and cannot live without it. And in so living and not living, you take your place with the undead and the human puppet.

Any progress towards the salvation of mankind will probably start from the bottom [the family unit] when our gods have been devalued to the status of fridge magnets or garden ornaments.