Quotes About Progress

Mais crains que l'avenir détruisant le passé

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

cuando un número importante de personas cambia su modo de pensar y de comportarse, la cultura lo hace también, y una nueva era comienza.

Here we are, women who have been the beneficiaries of education, resources, reproductive choices, travel opportunities, the Internet, and a longer life expectancy than women have ever had in history. What can and will we do?

51st and 52nd Streets for $700,000 in 1879—the year

The academic community is an attractive working environment,

taxi companies had either never thought of these innovations or just did not to bother to introduce

When the iPhone was launched in 2007, Apple did not yet have its App Store,

creative destruction" as Schumpeter called it—

the medical profession of tomorrow will not resemble the current one at all.

To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

It's all men's fault,' she said, 'anyway. It would never have happened if it had been left to women.' 'If it had been left to women we'd probably still be living in the Stone Age!

Human beings stopped living in a state of nature as soon as they evolved into human beings. We've always tinkered and tampered.

Almost as if—as if he regretted that they were civilised. As if he knew that they had to be, but wished it wasn't necessary. Or that there was some other way.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour".

Our humanity is so beautiful, but it needs to be transformed

Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.

You must remember that you cannot form your character in a moment, my dear. Character is a plant of slow growth and the seeds must be planted early.