Quotes About Progress

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past, one only adds a new link.

I want you to know that, despite what you might read at times in the newspapers or see on the television news, we have actually been getting a lot of things done the last several months, the U.S.-Canada relationship.

2.Enhancing the customer's competitive standing.

In each chapter of this book, I'll be peeling back a very thin layer of that onion (hopefully without the tears).

Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.

Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.

Not all developing countries are the same.

The future's better than the past. Or what's the point?

Many times expecting personal transformation to happen without humility is like expecting a car to move forward without fuel.

You know I used to think the future was solid or fixed, something you inherited like an old building that you move into when the previous generation moves out or gets chased out. But it's not. The future is not fixed, it's fluid.

God is love and love is evolution's best day

Child mortality [since 2000 is] down by 2.65 million a year. That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day. … It drives me nuts that most people don't seem to know this news.

what is success?

God is rescuing fallen humanity, transporting them into his kingdom, and progressively shaping them into his likeness—and he wants you to be a part of it.

Finally, we must understand that theology is never an end in itself, but a means to an end, the end that we would progressively become like the One who is the ultimate definition of what love is and what love does.

You cannot ask for forgiveness without acknowledging that there is something in life that is more important than the progress of your own kingdom.

Everything we say and do, everything we commit ourselves to, and every situation, location, and relationship we experience is experienced between the already and the not yet. You will never understand the things you face every day until you understand that you live in the middle. Everything in your life is shaped by what the middle is like.

None of us is yet a grace graduate, but we're satisfied. We all give evidence that we still need to grow, but we're satisfied.

To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously.

Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.

Microbe hunting is a story of amazing stupidities, fine intuitions, insane paradoxes.

proceeded to try to force his beliefs down nature's throat. Strange to say, sometimes he was right, importantly right as you will see. Up till now (it was in the late eighteen

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.