Quotes About Progress

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Philip stepped forward to whip the king. He was glad he had lived to see this. After today, he thought, the world will never be quite the same.

No tienen que complacer los deseos de todos los grupitos que se oponen al progreso porque quieren proteger las zonas donde anida la tetuda curruca moteada…

Perhaps. Still, somehow Russia must join the twentieth century. Either we, the nobility, must do it, or the people will destroy us and do it themselves.

In dog philosophy it was always better to go somewhere than to be left behind

The Medieval Machine

O deleite transformou-se em tolerância, depois em impaciência e muitas vezes, mais para a frente, em desprezo.

In dog philosophy it is always better to go somewhere than to be left behind.

Se preguntó cuánto tiempo más tardaría en sobreponerse.

Dirigió una última mirada atrás. Su puente dominaba el panorama. Había transformado radicalmente la aldea. La mayoría de la gente ya no se refería a ella por su antiguo nombre de Dreng's Ferry. Ahora la llamaban King's Bridge, el puente del rey.

lo oyeron decir: «Hasta aquí vamos bien».

from her training, that

The invention of the pointed arch, he wrote, was a rare event in history, when the solution to a technical problem—how to build a taller church—was also sublimely beautiful.

Nada es perdurable, salvo el cambio.

When the Roman Empire declined, Britain went backward. As the Roman villas crumbled, the people built one-room wooden dwellings without chimneys. The technology of Roman pottery—important for storing food—was mostly lost. Literacy declined. This period is sometimes called the Dark Ages, and progress was painfully slow for five hundred years. Then, at last, things started to change

la Iglesia católica era conservadora en todo, rápida a la hora de condenar las ideas nuevas y lenta con respecto a los cambios.

Aristocratic titles mattered less and less nowadays.

That was not the end of the problems, but it was the beginning of solutions.

Înl?turarea unei interdicÈ›ii p?rea s? le înl?ture pe toate.

They've still got their problems, just like all of us. They're still sick men in lots of ways. But at least there's that: they are sick men now. No more rabbits, Mack. Maybe they can be well men someday. I can't say.

I figured, There's no sense doing anything when everything's already been done

Technology is a Beautiful Thing.... When It Works...........

Well, Watson.' 'Yes, Holmes? 'I believe the wheel has turned yet again–and now it's back to work!