Quotes About Progress

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

It is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity.

All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.

We can't solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

A fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them.

a person who never make a mistake, never tried anything new.

A theory can be proved by experiment but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else... All our lauded technological progress--our very civilization--is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.

Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

How many hands were shook and names were signed and pipes were passed congenially in a circle, before the first of the used-car dealerships rose up on the ground where the gods had walked?

Chapter 6 Open Up Those Golden Gates

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

American society is the only one which has passed directly from barbarism into decadence without once knowing civilisation.