Quotes About Progress

We wait? No! You can wait! The cardinal can wait! Henry can wait! But I have to dance on the spot, I have to be seen to make progress while actually making none.

Every scholarly history that was written before 1920 was written by a man who had been taught by a man, whose thesis would be examined by a man, and whose book would be published by a male publisher and reviewed by a male critic. This could not change until women were admitted to universities and colleges. When women could train as historians in the universities, they could for the first time research, write, and publish scholarly history.

can't change what you don't acknowledge.

Experts indicate that you should aim for consistent weight loss of about one to two pounds per week, so you should remain realistic—you aren't going to lose 40 pounds per week (no matter what any diet product claims).

Ah, they always have settled, and they always will. That's part of growing up. There'll come a time when you'll be tired of his changing about, and you'll want a settled kind of form for him.

The old laws do not stand. Everything can be remade. Marriage does not mean marriage now.

Obama's judges share his contempt for the original meaning of the Constitution. He has long seen the U.S. Constitution as an obstacle to what he considers progress. In a 2001 interview that surfaced during the 2008 presidential campaign, he made this very clear: the Supreme Court under Justice Earl Warren had failed to break "free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution," Obama told the host of a radio show.

Every act of creation is first of all an action of destruction.

Une civilisation sans la Science, ce serait aussi absurde qu'un poisson sans bicyclette.

Occidental que je suis dans l'âme, confortablement installé sur cinquante années de prospérité écoulées depuis la fin de la guerre (avec un généreux plan Marshall pour commencer), j'ai tendance à regarder ces bizarreries sans indulgence. Qu'attend-on pour réparer la chaussée, les routes, pour réparer en général ? (p. 32)

Le temps est venu de consacrer des moyens à la vie et non à la mort avec les armements qui n'en finissent pas de se perfectionner.

The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Evolution) general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true. Evolution is a light which illuminates all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.

But this quantum only takes on its full significance when we try to define it with regard to a concrete natural movement — that is to say, in duration.

for certain limited purposes it may be useful to think of phenomena as isolated statically in time, they are in point of fact never static:

man's evolution was unique in showing the dominance of convergence over divergence:

For in the nature of things everything that is faith must rise, and everything that rises must converge.

El pasado me ha revelado la estructura del futuro

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of courage. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but in expressing them correctly; and we can now see that it is biologically undeniable that unless we harness passion to the service of spirit there can be no progress. Sooner or later, then, and in spite of all our incredulity, the world will take this step— because the greater truth always prevails and the greater good emerges in the end.

Rien ne vaut la peine d'être trouvé que ce qui n'a jamais existé encore.

But I have so much to learn!" Zane cried plaintively. "Then get to it, Death," she said, closing the door behind her.

then America still has the power to change, and to change quickly and for the better. And I hope it does, because a successful America, with a new-found

All is flux, nothing stays still

we must go where the argument carries us, as a vessel runs before the wind.