Quotes About Progress

The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

Changing my body has given me the ability to do all these amazing things that I never in a million years imagined I could do.

It's just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are instead of making you change.

Failure is an amazing data point that tells you which direction not to go.

Bring anger and pride under your feet, turn them into a ladder and climb higher.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

The only way you approach politics and seek elective office is to move forward. For me to look back in anger or with any rancor would be a mistake.

We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent.

Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody.

I think it is having answers and not simply anger, and providing solutions that people believe will change their lives in a radical way but do it in a way that's sensible.

But he learned what he had to, and he changed, and so he made himself exceptional.

And yet in Port William, as everywhere else, it was already the second decade of the twentieth century. And in some of the people of the town and the community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its way: the suspicion that they would be greatly improved if they were someplace else.

We travelers, walking to the sun, can't see Ahead, but looking back the very light That blinded us shows us the way we came, Along which blessings now appear, risen As if from sightlessness to sight, and we, By blessing brightly lit, keep going toward That blessed light that yet to us is dark. Sabbaths 1999 VI

The tractor's arrival had signaled, among other things, agriculture's shift from an almost exclusive dependence on free solar energy to a total dependence on costly fossil fuel.

We see how everything—the whole world—is belittled by the idea that all creation is moving or ought to move toward an end that some body, some human body, has thought up.

But a man with a machine and inadequate culture—such as I was when I made my pond—is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.

And it is one of the miracles of science and hygiene that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.

We long ago gave up the wish to have things that were adequate or even excellent; we have preferred instead to have things that were up-to-date.

The big idea of education, from first to last, is the idea of a better place. Not a better place where you are, because you want it to be better and have been to school and learned to make it better, but a better place somewhere else. In order to move up, you have got to move on.

The world as it is would always be a reminder of the world that was, and of the world that is to come.

But ignorance of when to stop is a modern epidemic; it is the basis of industrial progress and economic growth. The most obvious practical result of this ignorance is a critical disproportion of scale between the scale of human enterprises and their sources in nature.

Troy went into debt and bought his new equipment because he didn't want to be held back by demanding circumstances.

There are two or three things that we haven't been able to confront or even acknowledge politically. One is that the aim of the Industrial Revolution from year one has been to replace people with technology. So it's a little contemptible to hear these people express in surprise at this late date that we have an unemployment problem.