Quotes About Progress

Without predators, people who can think the unthinkable, and act without fear or hesitation, the world stands still. You are an evolutionary necessity.

But we can find it again, that golden age, because history is cyclic. All that is needed is a few good people. Men and women with the vision to see that the old must be destroyed to make way for the new, and the courage to do it.

Why doesn't Apple stop for a year and make medical devices? When people talk about technology, that's where I start to get a little hot under the collar because I know that it's the key to solving some of the world's biggest problems. Having a faster, thinner telephone is not one of the world's biggest problems.

A relationship can really change from a push down the stairs.

This is life, a pattern of renewal, growth, and change. None of us are really ever the same over the course of a lifetime. The tragedy is not learning the lessons within the experiences we have.

If it's possible to do something, sooner or later someone's going to do it.

It is well for people who think, to change their minds ocasionally in order to keep them clean.

Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also should introduce a clause to prevent the use of the telescope, the microscope and the spectroscope or any other instrument of precision which may in the future be invented, constructed or used for the discovery of truth.

The clear light of science teaches us that we must be our own saviors, if we are to be found worth saving.

He who wholly renounces himself, and relies not on mere human reason, will make good progress in the Scriptures; but the world comprehends them not, from ignorance of that mortification which is the gift of God's word.

Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.

A vida não tece apenas uma teia de perdas, mas nos proporciona uma sucessão de ganhos.

Esclavas nuevas, ideas viejas

Maybe for now I should try, each day, to be a little less than I usually am.

So what I think at this point is that I'm aiming too high, that maybe nothing is too much, to begin with. Maybe for now I should just try, each day, to be a little less than I usually am.

One gains courage from the one in front of her and moves forward a few steps, passing her by just a little. Now the one farthest back gains courage from the one in front and moves forward until she, in turn, is the leader. And so in this way, taking courage from one another, they advance, as a group, towards the strange thing in front of them.

Like a tropical storm, I, too, may one day become 'better organized.

Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap at the ballot box.

Time never works. It eats, and undermines, and rots, and rusts, and destroys. But it never works. It only gives us an opportunity to work.

This is what evolution means--ordered progress; development from poorer to richer, from lower to higher, from less to greater--progress. In the material universe, progress to higher forms; in the moral universe, progress to higher life.

It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life.

Perhaps we expect time to work for us, when time is only given us that we may work.

Optimism will grow like a flower if the soil be properly prepared.

We are heirs of the ages because throughout the ages mankind has devised and fashioned new things, and step by step added new conquests to our domain in that incessant contest with nature which means life. But we are decadent heirs if we cannot use the instruments that the ages have put into our hands. The acquisition of these, in the largest scope, is education.