Quotes About Progress

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.

Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

those places which have an open policy of marijuana, like Africa and the Middle East—well, just look at them. The people have no incentive, no ambitions, the countries make no progress. Isn't there a lesson to be learned here?

Success depends on our using, and not opposing...

We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.

It is an old saying that "Order is Heaven's First Law," and like many other old sayings it contains a much deeper philosophy than appears immediately on the surface. Getting things into a better order is the great secret of progress, and we are now able to fly through the air, not because

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

You can be discouraged by failure--or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

If we are lucky, they were never retarded enough to create computer viruses and will have no such things as firewalls and security like we have. If they have never experienced a full blown computer failure we'll introduce them to the concept

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America — that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.

Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don't freeze up.

Without triers they would never be any successors

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign.

Agreement and acceptance rarely stimulate experiments and progress.

It is progress when weapons are improved to kill more people at a longer range.

dissidence and controversy are what bring science forward. Agreement and acceptance rarely stimulate experiments and progress.