Quotes About Progress

zaczynam wychodzi? z momentu "teraz" i stawa? ju? jedn? nog? w momencie "potem".

If you think you are capable of destruction, think how you could build.

Our fathers had their dreams we have ours the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Always in our dreams we hear the turn of the key that shall close the door of the last brothel; the clink of the last coin that pays for the body and soul of a woman; the falling of the last wall that encloses artificially the activity of woman and divides her from man; always we picture the love of the sexes, as, once a dull, slow, creeping worm; then a torpid, earthy chrysalis; at last the full-winged insect, glorious in the sunshine of the future.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

He who stops being better stops being good.

A man never goes so far as when he does not know whither he is going.

A man never goes so far as when he does not know wither he is going.

Reformed theology is ALWAYS being reformed in each new generation. And reformed theology as it is usually reported today is NOT the whole story.

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.

we must wait two hundred years for the next name of great magnitude; moreover

The man I spoke of as coming two hundred years later is Leonardo da Vinci. True

About this time the tremendous invention of printing was achieved, and Columbus unwittingly discovered the New World. The

The middle of the next century must be taken as the real dawn of modern science; for the year 1543 marks the publication of the life-work of Copernicus. Nicolas Copernik was his proper name. Copernicus

Tycho Brahé from 1546 to 1601. Kepler from 1571 to 1630. Galileo from 1564 to 1642. Gilbert from 1540 to 1603. Francis Bacon from 1561 to 1626. Descartes from 1596 to 1650.

All that Copernicus could suggest on this head was that perhaps the atmosphere might help to carry things forward, and enable them to keep pace with the earth.

there is a second lesson from Grübler's studies of past energy transitions to be confronted. They have, in the main, been driven not by the availability of new ways of providing energy, but by new ways of using it: transitions are pulled by demand, not pushed by supply.

Farmed in the way they were farmed at the beginning of the twentieth century, today's 1.5 billion hectares of cropland would feed about three billion people eating a diet typical of 1900 (which is to say, an insufficient one)

Retreat, hell! We're just advancing in another direction.

Americans, like people everywhere, are in thrall to their visions of the past, rarely realizing the extent to which their understanding of history shapes behavior in the here and now. Historical understanding defines people's very sense of what is thinkable and achievable. As a result, many have lost the ability to imagine a world that is substantially different from and better than what exists today.

By the early 1920s, the America of Jefferson, Lincoln, Whitman, and the young William Jennings Bryan had ceased to exist. It had been replaced by the world of McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, J. Edgar Hoover, and Woodrow Wilson.

A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.

Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like.