Quotes About Progress

The Apollo program certainly had no real commercial value. It was done for very different reasons and, I think, very good reasons for the time. It's an extraordinary achievement of mankind, but it wasn't sustainable.

People are at their best when they are challenged. If we don't challenge ourselves, nature has a way of giving us challenges anyway. There is great value in our struggles, and human nature has shown us that we only value the things we struggle to achieve.

First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer.

Knowledge has value only insofar as it contributes to the all-round development of the whole nature of man.

Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public.

The value of 'Made in Italy' must necessarily be up-to-date. This is the philosophy that Italia Independent has embraced. We decided from the outset to do away with stereotypes and attune ourselves to the extreme pace, to the incessant metamorphoses of the globalized world.

Forget goals. Value the process.

As a person, I believe that it is important to struggle and only then can we value our achievements.

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present - and that's not fully valued.

When the U.K. and India collaborate, there is force multiplier, which is very-very strong. The force multiplier with India is much stronger than with many other countries. We get much greater impact and valued research papers when British and Indian scientists co-operate.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.

I try to stay the same, but I also think that change is inevitable. What I mean is, if you stay the same as in your rookie days, you can't deal with all the new responsibilities you are faced with. Of course, my most important values should stay the same.

We should use our old moral values and our love of peace as the foundation of national reconstruction and look forward to the day when we shall become leaders in world reconstruction upon lines of international justice and good will.

Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.

Our dominant values that emphasize competition and scarcity limit continued progress.

The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.

Being socially responsible is one of Gucci's core values, and we will continue to strive to do better for the environment and animals.

We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along.

Why did civilization make things seem so much more difficult?

In our first issue of 1983 we reported on a new piece of equipment only available in Japan, the $1,000 compact disc player, with the headline "Will the Compact Disc Make the LP Obsolete?

Because you've survived, there is a next strategy.

But hope always kindles through striving.