Quotes About Progress

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Great scientific discoveries have been made by men seeking to verify quite erroneous theories about the nature of things.

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been devided as fools and madmen.

To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.

We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

No es posible regresar a ninguna parte. Los puntos de partida no se quedan quietos y a la vuelta ya no están. Para poder volver se necesita, por empezar, un punto de partida eterno e inmutable. Pero todo se mueve y no hay forma de detener el universo.

No cuentes el tiempo sino tus transformaciones

Although really society should not change, it should mutate. And, little by little, it is mutating... ... Society is like the body of a chicken: the chicken's foot is hard and insensitive while the eye is very alive. And there are beings who embody the cells of the eyes and others who embody the cells of the feet, of the wings, or of the anus.

Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction.

You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold.

Time does nothing but hand you down shabbier and older things.

If you wait long enough, something will happen - there has never been a time when nothing happened.

If you live long enough, you learn that nothing has ever been, nor will it ever be, the way it used to be.

But nothing has ever been—nor will it ever be—the way it used to be.

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