Quotes About Progress

The only thing you can count on is change.

Ich war zu neugierig auf die Zukunft, um zurückzuschauen.

Shard by shard we are released from the tyranny of so-called time.

The old world and the emerging one served up in the brick and mortar of the artisan and the architects.

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I could feel progress and left with a little bit of optimism. -- Anxious for some permanency, I guess I needed to be reminded how temporal permanency is.

It's our decade, he said.

The merry-go-round was slowing down.

There's always new stuff, that's for sure.

I have put gay dating on the map.

Always keep learning. It keeps you young.

The only time you ever run out of chances is when you stop taking them.

History is the error we are forever correcting." —Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno

Within five years of Röntgen's invention, X-rays were considered essential for clinical care. In 1900, at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, 1.3 percent of all patients were X-rayed; by 1925, it was 25 percent. In 2009, a poll conducted by the Science Museum in London named the discovery of X-rays as more important than the discoveries of penicillin, computers, motorized cars, the telegraph, and the DNA double helix.

Nothing is more dangerous than science without poetry or technical progress without emotional content," wrote Houston Stewart Chamberlain, a German philosopher.

In part because of antibiotics, we live 30 years longer than we did a hundred years ago.

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.

If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one's equation, ... one is on a sure line of progress.

If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand. Again and again, when I have been at a loss how to proceed, I have just had to wait until I have felt the mathematics led me by the hand. It has led me along an unexpected path, a path where new vistas open up, a path leading to new territory, where one can set up a base of operations, from which one can survey the surroundings and plan future progress.

You always leave something behind when you start something new.

In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction.

For it is no railways, roads, and power stations that give rise to industrial capitalism: it is the emergence of industrial capitalism that leads to the building of railways, to the construction of roads, and to the establishment of power stations.

As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line.