Quotes About Progress

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

Logic is a feeble reed, friend. Logic proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

That was smart, that was engineering: never reinvent something that you can buy down the street.

But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill.

The people will take a certain amount of reform, then they want a rest. But the reforms stay.

in a matter of some generations all the stupid ones will die out and those with your discipline will inherit the Earth

certain feet were made for stepping on ,in order to improve the breed, promote the general welfare and minimize the ancient insolence of office..

But, whatever you do, do not let the past be a straitjacket!

Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything that didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.

the greatest danger to man in space was man himself.

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes.

stupid races don't build spaceships!)

Politics is not evil; politics is the human race's most magnificent achievement.

The universe will let us know—later—whether or not Man has any "right" to expand through it. In

Robert A. Heinlein

But their refuge had been a dead end; all that inflexible old guard could do was to die and let younger minds, still limber, take over.

That's what I was trying to find out when we were rushed off on this damned safari. They have unusual intestinal flora and it may have something to do with that. But I think it has to do with the fact that they never stop growing.

Robert A. Heinlein

We humans have to make considerable progress before we can accept a free gift, and value it.

Robert A. Heinlein

The weak ones died, and the bad ones died or were killed; the stock that survived was always stronger, smarter, more decent. New Beginnings was a planet to be proud of, and it would get better and better and better for a long time.

Terra had climbed well beyond that which its

Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system.