Quotes About Progress

The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes.

Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.

Progress has always been achieved by probing well-entrenched and well-founded forms of life with unpopular and unfounded values. This is how man gradually freed himself from fear and from the tyranny of unexamined systems.

So what does the Green New Deal mean? It's not entirely clear, which is what makes it a good slogan: it could mean a number of good things. But the main thrust, as I understand it, is that we should make a big move to tackle climate change, and that this move should accentuate the positive, not the negative. In particular, it should emphasize investments and subsidies, not carbon taxes.

Which brings us back to the nostalgia thing. There are, let's face it, some people in our political life who pine for the days when minorities and women knew their place, gays stayed firmly in the closet, and congressmen asked, "Are you now or have you ever been?

Le depressioni, l'inflazione galoppante o la guerra civile possono rendere un paese povero, ma solo l'aumento di produttività può renderlo ricco.

Productivity isn't everything, but in the long run, it's almost everything

The things you people can do now!" Unlikely Worlds said. "The stories you make!

Unsuccessful investors' greatest weakness is not understanding their financial situations and how stocks fit in. Often, I counsel people to stay out of the stock market if they aren't prepared for the responsibilities of stock investing, such as regularly reviewing the financial statements and progress of the companies they invest in.

In brief, death control goes with the grain, birth control against it.

Students and instructors will reinvent the wheel by bringing back old discarded techniques, as new or new and improved.

The good globalization is technologically driven.

Time is a factor in travel, one of the most crucial.

Why do things get weaker and worse? Why don't they get better? Because we accept that they fall apart! But they don't have to --- they could last forever. Why do things get more expensive? Any fool can see that they should get cheaper as technology gets more efficient. It's despair to accept the senility of obsolescence...

I am not interested in excuses for delay; I am interested only in a thing done.

keeps Mexico ticking over

made notes on my progress through the mountains, which had thrilled me.

the journey is the goal.

calendar scenes that you admire for a moment before feeling an urge to move on to a new month.

The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck

Il faut penser à ce qui arrive - nous sommes les producteurs de l'avenir.

Bombe atomique hier, bombe informatique aujourd'hui et, demain, bombe génétique?

When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck.

Si inventer la substance, c'est indirectement inventer l'accident, plus l'invention est puissant, performante, et plus l'accident est dramatique.