Quotes About Progress

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin

Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them as they go, they take many away.)

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Be ashamed to die unless you have won some victory for humanity.

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men -- the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

In science, mistakes always precede the truth.

Eu nu sunt ceea ce ascund, eu sunt ceea ce devin prin voin??

The dawn that Anna feared might never come would appear on schedule, just as it always had - and after it another, and another. And yesterday would become Last Month, then Last Winter, then Last Year, then Two and Five and Ten Years Ago, and one day the people would have to stop and think before they could say how long ago it was ...

Progress is possible only when people believe in the possibilities of growth and change. Races or tribes die out not just when they are conquered and suppressed but when they accept their defeated condition, become despairing, and lose their excitement about the future. Norman Cousins Americans

But a man is not born too soon, Paine had smiled. The world waits for men and dreamers, so how can a man be born too soon?

Jean Monnet: "I regard every defeat as an opportunity.

Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle (New York: W. W. Norton, 1970) and Greek Science after Aristotle (New York: W. W. Norton, 1973)

Alexander Bird's Thomas Kuhn (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000

Michael Ruse's The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.

I have a plot, but not much happens.