Quotes About Progress

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

by 1890 there were 166,703 miles of railroad (and more to come) and a single railroad corporation might have as many as 36,000 employees. This

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Speaker Paul Ryan, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell—will abandon the disastrous policies of the Obama years.

The French came to Morocco to build roads, railways, hospitals, schools, fashion sense - all the things that the average Frenchman knows to be indispensable to a modern civilization - and when five o'clock came, and the French looked upon their works and saw that they were good, they reckoned they had bloody well earned the right to live like Maharajahs. Which, for a time, they did.

The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?

Homo sapiens. That's a label we invented for ourselves, of course: Latin for 'wise man'. It may be hoped that we will eventually either evolve into something worthier of that appellation or aspire to an even better one. How about Gens unanima - 'harmonious race' or ' a people of one spirit'?

No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly, our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of the earth to the things of heaven.

True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.

Doctors and trainers often see perfectly developed bodies, but nobody can even begin to imagine what a perfect *mind* would be like; that is where the whole range of progress and growth must take place.

As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must be reversed today, and in the long run the most positive authority is the least to be trusted.

The genius of stable societies is that they achieve stability without stagnation, repetition without monotony, conformity with originality, obedience with liberty.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

Next time I will ... From now on I will ... What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow

Sometimes the only way for me to find out what it is I want to do is go ahead and do something. Then the moment I start to act, my feelings become clear.

By approaching my problems with "What might make things a little better?" rather than "What is the solution?" I avoid setting myself up for certain frustration. My experience has shown me that I am not going to solve anything in one stroke; at best I am only going to chip away at it.

perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it to, then i would never experience anything new; my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. when i make a mistake i experience something unexpected.... when i have listened to my mistakes i have grown.

It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.

Perfectionism is a slow death....If everything were to turn out just as I would want it, just as I would plan, I would never experience anything new. My life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. When I make a mistake I experience something unexpected.

Next time I will ..." "From now on I will ..." - What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

wouldnt be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but once capitalism got there it would finish the planet.

We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.