Quotes About Progress

Every way makes my gain.

The choice and master spirits of this age.

How poor are they who have not patience What wound did ever heal but by degrees.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad.

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

I love technology.

Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.

know that the people who live the longest and the richest lives are looking ahead and not behind.

It is a curious fact that men who know nothing of each other tend to work in the same direction at the same time. Darwin and Wallace, Mendel and de Vries.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

Your job is to find out what the world is trying to be.

They say that history is going on somewhere. They say it won't stop. I have held One picture still for a long time and waited.

The whole question of the steam engine is one of economy. It's development consist of nothing but the quest for greater efficiency.

Sometime before the year 2025, America will pass through a great gate in history, commensurate with the American Revolution, Civil War, and twin emergencies of the Great Depression and World War II.

We may prefer to see ourselves as masters of nature, controllers of all change and progress, exempt from the seasons of history. Yet the more we balk at seasonality and the more we try to eradicate it, the more menacing we render our view of time—and of the future.

By the 2020s, America could become a society that is good, by today's standards, and also one that works.

World War II had marked "the supreme triumph of man in his long battle with the scarcities in nature." By

In America, as Mark Twain observed, nothing is older than our habit of calling everything new.

America, as Mark Twain observed, nothing is older than our habit of calling everything new.

The farther backward you look, the farther forward you are likely to see," Winston Churchill once said.

Two centuries later, the Enlightenment transmuted Christian linearism into a complementary secular faith, what historian Carl Becker called "the heavenly city of the eighteenth-century philosophers"—the belief in indefinite scientific, economic, and political improvement.

These men flocked to the plains, and were rather stimulated than retarded by the danger of an Indian war. This was another potent agency in producing the result we enjoy to-day, in having in so short a time replaced the wild buffaloes by more numerous herds of tame cattle, and by substituting for the useless Indians the intelligent owners of productive farms and cattle-ranches.