Quotes About Progress

The birth of science was the death of superstition.

Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact

Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.

If you recognize that self-driving cars are going to prevent car accidents, AI will be responsible for reducing one of the leading causes of death in the world.

I do feel that in modern society that still is the best way to survive. Whatever it is, just keep doing something, because complete stillness or inactivity is more like death than death.

People think of history in the long term, but history, in fact, is a very sudden thing.

Las décadas transcurridas desde los años sesenta han llevado a cabo una notable tarea en el acabado de la revolución sexual.

Maybe it's still a bit of an affront to people, to fail to abide by the old clock of life.

It's very hard to master and if you're not learning all the time, you will fail. That being said, humility in the face of the game is extremely different than humility in the face of your opponents.

It was the absence of doubt—and scientific rigor—that made medicine unscientific and caused it to stagnate for so long.

In one of history's great ironies, scientists today know vastly more than their colleagues a century ago, and possess vastly more data-crunching power, but they are much less confident in the prospects for perfect predictability.

We do well to remember that the Bible has far more to say about how to live during the journey than about the ultimate destination.

We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.

Health and life, I would say, in the full and final sense of those words, are not what we die out of, but what we die into

The committee has again been reminded that every human effort is flawed

The past must be remembered before it can be overcome.

Old English, the heart and soul of the old regime at Oxford, ceased to be a required course only as of 2002.

Lewis was studying literary history with the present and future in mind.

Sometimes we win; sometimes we lose. The main thing is that we always, we always go on.

But the magic moment when he walks alone has not yet happened, and I was praying he would do it before I have to leave. Now he will take his first step without me. And every step thereafter, I know. Every step of his life, and me not there to see him walk.

The more that I learn, the more sure I am that I have very much to learn...

We have no time for regrets or second thoughts. If a plan goes awry we make another, if one weapon breaks in our hands we find a second. If the steps fall down before us we overleap them and go up. It is always onward and upward

But this world is changing. Perhaps by the time you are old enough to marry the world will hear a woman's voice. Perhaps she will not have to swear to obey in her wedding vows. Perhaps one day a woman will be allowed to both love and think.

Walk through your sorrow, my daughter, it hardly matters as long as you walk to where you want to be.