Quotes About Progress

Small observations can lead to large breakthroughs.

Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to

He moved through each

if you don't grow, you wither

What's your next

It's not getting from A to B. It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.

eight-story building. It looked like a place where young people just starting out or older people downsizing might live mixed in with a healthy dose of middle-aged people who had simply never fully realized their goals in life.

In his mind progress was always to be measured in inches, especially when you didn't have yards or even feet of success to show off.

next step?" she said. "We have made contact. We expect her to do the same

As accustomed as he was to the ever-expanding muscle of technology, even Jason Archer had to shake his head occasionally over what was really out there. Iris scanners were also used to closely monitor worker productivity. Jason grimaced. Truth be known, Orwell had actually underestimated.

Vee-one meant the aircraft had reached sufficient takeoff speed and there was no going back.

he would have been under the tutelage of a two-star.

I had to do something. Anything that would make me feel like I was accomplishing something. To make me feel that I was not a failure.

While Republicans were working to end slavery and secure civil rights, the new nation of southern Democrats was determined to head in an opposite direction.

Whatever the degree to which Darwin may have "misled science into a dead end," the biologist Shi V. Liu observed in commenting on Koonin's paper, "we may still appreciate the role of Darwin in helping scientists [win an] upper hand in fighting against the creationists.

If the calculus is much like a cathedral, its construction the work of centuries, it remained until the nineteenth century a cathedral suspiciously suspended in midair, the thing simply hanging there, with no one absolutely convinced that one day the gorgeous and elaborate structure would not come crashing down and fracture in a thousand pieces.

Karl Popper once said that attempts to create heaven on earth invariably produce hell.

Karl Popper once said that attempts to create heaven on earth invariably produce hell. Libertarianism holds out the goal not of a perfect society but of a better and freer one. It

it has always been both necessary and proper for man, in his thinking, to divide things up, and to separate them, so as to reduce his problems to manageable proportions; for evidently, if in our practical technical work we tried to deal with the whole of reality all at once, we would be swamped. So, in certain ways, the creation of special subjects of study and the division of labour was an important step forward.

At any particular stage in the development of science, our concepts concerning the causal relationships will then be true only relative to a certain approximation and to certain conditions.

older theories become more and more unclear when one tries to use them to obtain insight into new domains.

it must also be realized that a paradigm has the power to keep a whole community of scientists working on a more or less common area. In a sense, it could be taken as an unconscious or tacit form of consent. At first sight, the paradigm would be of obvious use to the scientific community. However, it also exacts a price in that the mind is kept within certain fixed channels that deepen with time until an individual scientist is no longer aware of his or her limited position.

No more free steps to heaven. - It's No Game

I can see light at the end of the tunnel and it isn't a train.