Quotes About Progress

The present is pregnant with the future.

Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.

Hope is like yeast, you know, rising under warmth.

Change is always a sorry thing

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30

One of the most important popular concepts that we do have to ditch is the idea that there is some natural balance that mankind is intruding upon as a result of our growth.

Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.

It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.

The state is the nursing mother of human culture.

No generation can do another generation's work for it. What we human beings can do at most is to mark out the pathway a little clearer for the generations to come after, and put legible signboards at the points where the greatest dangers have threatened us, in the hope that our posterity will read, understand, and be warned.

Human progress is not an uninterrupted march forward. It is a slow and devious movement with haltings and twistings. The pathway of man ascends and descends, wanders off into mazes. At times the trail seems to lose itself in the wilderness of human passion and folly. But inch by inch it goes forward with halting steps.

In every journey, there comes a point, around three quarters of the way through, when the traveller, without a guide, can go no further. But not everyone finds a guide. Not everyone accepts a guide. Not everyone is convinced. Many would rather keep fumbling on their own, trying and trying again. They would rather risk not completing the journey, they would rather risk getting lost or content themselves with the advance already made, than follow in trust.

It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.

you just have to keep going and everything will sort itself out.

I think I'll paint roads on my front room walls to convince myself that I'm going places

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.

A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means "standing around doing tedious tasks under the instruction of a bossy adult." In time, however, people realized that the children could be allowed to sit, and the first school was invented.

Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.

All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found

Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.

You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can't invent more time.

and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

I do what I do," I said, "in order to do something else.

Tu opinión inicial acerca de casi cualquier cosa puede cambiar con el paso del tiempo.