Quotes About Progress

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

Science increases our understanding in proportion as it lowers our pride.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

Every effort to understand destroys the object studied in favor of another object of a different nature; this second object requires from us a new effort which destroys it in favor of a third, and so on and so forth until we reach the one lasting presence, the point at which the distinction between meaning and the absence of meaning disappears: the same point from which we began.

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

I may be subjected to the criticism of being called 'scientistic' or a kind of blind believer in science who holds that science is able to solve absolutely all problems. Well, I certainly don't believe that, because I cannot conceive that a day will come when science will be complete and achieved.

Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

I was born too soon into a world too young.

The further I get, the more I regret how little I know…

Life is like a bicycle you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.

Is it better to have bronze than copper and tin separately? Is this the marker of some historic advance?

Did you win? he asks. It wasn't a match, I say. It was a lesson.

this nation is both its credits and debits.

Yes, and this is how you are a citizen: Come on. Let it go. Move on.

One does not need to be able to know the future; one only needs to be conversant with the past in order to guide the present, and the future will attend to itself

We need to make sure that the laws we're passing are protecting people. And we should not be voting against something that makes progress just because it doesn't make as much progress as we'd like to see made. As much as I might like to see any number of issues progress in larger steps, I understand that some of these things happen in smaller steps. And so for that reason, progress is progress. And success is success.

Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice.

For Martin, social justice would not "roll in on the wings of inevitability" but would come through struggle and sacrifice. *

I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice;

In order to really find happiness, you need to continue looking for opportunities that you believe are meaningful, in which you will be able to learn new things, to succeed, and be given more and more responsibility to shoulder.

Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation. The same is true for learning.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.