Quotes About Progress

One of the big things about space exploration is that it is as expensive as it is complicated, and you need all the countries of the world to help if you want to accomplish big goals.

New ideas for innovation grow out of the minds of each new generation. Having an institution of higher learning that can help young people put those ideas into action is critical.

Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.

You cannot embrace your destiny if you do not let go of your history.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!

One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

Don't be encumbered by history, just go out and do something wonderful.

History is just new people making old mistakes.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.

Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.