Quotes About Progress

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn...?

Cam ended the call and joined Amanda inside the Tower. "So, do we have a fertilized egg?

You don't know where you're going until you know where you've been?

the invention of the mechanical clock in medieval Europe. This was one of the great inventions in this history of mankind -- not in a class with fire and the wheel, but comparable to movable type in its revolutionary implications for cultural values, technological change, social and political organization, and personality.

The invention of the mechanical clock was one of a number of major advances that turned Europe from a weak, peripheral, highly vulnerable outpost of Mediterranean civilization into a hegemonic aggressor.

In America, air conditioning made possible the economic prosperity of the New South. Without it, cities like Atlanta, Houston, and New Orleans would still be sleepy-time towns.

The alphabet was an invention below stairs.

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.

I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. URSULA K. LE GUIN

Step 1. Set your investment destination Step 2. Identify the steps necessary to reach that destination Step 3. Take action By

One of the most recurrent themes in science fiction is its examination of humanity's relation to its own material constructions, sometimes to celebrate progress, sometimes in a more negative spirit of what Isaac Asimov has repeatedly described as technophobia, through fictions articulating fears of human displacement.

The best proof of a link between changes in lifestyle and the arrested development of cancer cells is that the more diligently these men had absorbed Dr. Ornish's advice and applied it to their daily lives, the more active their blood was against the cancer cells!

When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where there had been only chaos and insanity.

As much as a child's birthday is important to a parent, as much as twenty one meant to me, a year in recovery means more.

Doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results is the definition of insanity.

Sometimes, it strikes me that life goes on, but it does, inexorably.

changes." And then we start again. It's like Groundhog Day. It may seem like you've made no progress and are starting over, but you aren't. Every repetition is different; the lessons are different because you are.

I am a ducker to contemplate opening to the idea of healing.

I go back, this time to a swankier neighborhood.

Sometimes I am all right. Is this what they call letting go? I have let go, if letting go means I am all right sometimes.

Painting isn't dead. The novel isn't dead. They just aren't as central to the culture as they once were.

Il progresso della crescita artistica in molti media viene rallentato, come quei poveri alberi sui rilievi alpini che possono crescere solo di pochi centimetri per qualche settimana all'anno. Per gli scrittori e gli artisti che sono cresciuti in mezzo a caterve di artefatti e frammenti culturali, tutto questo fa parte della loro vita, ma quasi tutto è off-limit sul piano dell'espressione artistica perché è di «proprietà» di qualcuno.