Quotes About Progress

Every time you can so arrange that one man will do the work of two, you so add to the wealth of the country that there will be a new and better job for the man who is displaced.

Every advance begins in a small way and with the individual.

A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.

We learn extra from our failures than from our successes.

If you always do what you always did - you'll always get what you always got.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

Many inventors fail because they do not distinguish between planning and experimenting. The

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Material progress does not merely fail to relieve poverty, it actually produces it. This association of progress with poverty is the great enigma of our times. It is the riddle that the sphinx of fate puts to our civilization. And which NOT to answer is to be destroyed.

Hitherto, it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. John Stuart Mill.

All I wish to make clear is that, without any increase in population, the progress of invention constantly tends to give a larger proportion of the produce to the owners of land, and a smaller and smaller proportion to labor and capital.

but in the sense of all having enough to completely satisfy all physical wants; of all having enough to get such an easy living that we could develop the better part of humanity.

Do not all improvements simply increase the value of land—the price that some must pay others for the privilege of living?

Why, in spite of increase in productive power, do wages tend to a minimum which will give but a bare living?

To ascertain the effects of material progress upon the distribution of wealth, let us, therefore, consider the effects of increase of population apart from improvement in the arts, and then the effect of improvement in the arts apart from increase of population.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

The notion that we can dismiss the views of all previous thinkers surely leaves no basis for the hope that our own work will prove of any value to others.

Czech noun related to the German noun Arbeit and meaning 'forced labour', to signify a new type of 'artificial' being, assembled like a car and programmed to be of service to humans.14 This choice of word was inspired by a conversation with his brother Josef, a painter of the cubist school. It would become an emblem of the future's potential. The

The saying Getting there is half the fun became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.