Quotes About Progress

The wringing of hands may achieve little, but inspiration and education precede intelligent action.

Nothing is yet in its true form.

We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.

Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.

Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.

"Where shall I begin, please, your Majesty?" he asked. "Begin at the beginning," the King said, gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop."

Begin at the beginning… and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.

"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"

It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.

History balances the frustration of how far we have to go with the satisfaction of how far we have come. It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

Creativity in science is almost always cumulative and collaborative; it proceeds collectively and thus thrives when barriers to collectivity are reduced.

claim is often made that without the near-term rewards of monopoly privilege, knowledge would not advance. This assumes a strikingly narrow notion of what motivates people to do creative work.

We change for the good so long as good exists around us.

Time and space are absolute. Diseases are evil spirits that inhabit the body. Parallel lines never meet. The earth is the center of the universe. Children are miniature adults. At one time in history each of these beliefs was generally held to be true. Each, however, gave way to different ideas and even different world views.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson nothing is impossible.

By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.