Quotes About Progress

no extinctions from this point onward are inevitable (this has always been true, however) 19,340

All of them were arrayed against the usual resistance of entrenched power and privilege and the economic system encoding these same, but now with the food panic reminding everyone that mass death was a distinct possibility, some progress was possible, for

we're not here to, you know, reproduce Canada, for God's sake!

One thought ever at the fore-- That in the Divine Ship, the World, breasting Time and Space, All Peoples of the globe together sail, sail the same voyage, are bound to the same destination. I see Freedom, completely arm'd and victorious and very haughty, with Law on one side and Peace on the other, A stupendous trio all issuing forth against the idea of caste; What historic denouements are these we so rapidly approach?

For that world out there we just saw. For humanity. What's it been, about fifteen thousand people, and a couple hundred years? In the big scheme of things it's not that many. And then we have a new world to live on." "If

History is humankind trying to get a grip. Obviously its not easy. But it could go better if you would pay a little more attention to certain details, like for instance your planet.

If we avoid a mass extinction event in the next 20 years, that's a utopian future.

Perhaps periodization makes it easier to remember that no matter how massively entrenched the order of things seems in your time, there is no chance at all that they are going to be the same as they are now after a century has passed, or even ten years.

And with our work," John continued, "we are carving out a new social order and the next step in the human story"—i.e., the latest variant in primate dominance dynamics.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Götterdämmerung capitalism

One sign of a good action is that in retrospect it appears inevitable

They would understand the fundamental laws of the universe before they had even the slightest handle on society.

He saw that they were all working together at the first step of the species' break from the home world, and he understood that if the first step were taken successfully, with balance, they could run from star to star all across the night.

Will I like it Jake? In your place? I hope so, hon. Is it very different? I smiled. People pay more for gasoline and have more buttons to push. Otherwise, it's about the same.

Nothing short of physical handicap has ever made anybody turn over a new leaf.

Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under examination had conceivably been cheered up, by a short study of the Middle Ages. The hydrogen bomb, the South African Government, Chioang Kaidick, Senator McCarthy himself, would then seem a light price to pay for no longer being in the Middle Ages

Pronto aprendimos a llevar varios problemas a la vez: un problema difícil que deba ser visitado y revisitado una vez tras otra a lo largo de muchos meses o años antes de que se abra la cáscara, con la esperanza de una gran ganancia; y otros problemas mucho más fáciles, con ganancias más inmediatas.

The only miracles in life are wrought by time.

ViaÈ›a este cel mai bun dasc?l .În majoritatea cazurilor ,viaÈ›a nu-È›i vorbeÈ™te ,ci te împinge de la spate .De fiecare dat? e ca È™i cum viaÈ›a È›i-ar spune :TrezeÈ™te-te ,vreau s? înveÈ›i ceva .

What would it profit us, after all, even from a purely practical viewpoint, if we stripped life of all poetry, all dreams, all beautiful mysteries, all lies? What is truth, can you tell me that? You see, we only advanced by way of symbols, and we change the symbols as we progress.

Soll der Direktor ruhig in seinem Jugendstil-Haus wohnen, ihm schadet das nichts - ihm nicht. Er ist ein moderner Mensch und immun; seine tiefste Sehnsucht wird dadurch befriedigt, daß er auf Knöpfe drücken und an Hähnen drehen darf.

Det var i Almindelighed folk, som man maatte sige var tat af Vinden. Talere og Skribenter, som havde slaat sig til Ro indenfor Grænserne af sine Evner, og ikke saa længer og ikke tænkte længer. De havde ikke Brug for Udvikling. Der de stod, der stod de. De var Kommunister.

Det er mit inderligste ønske at du som vordende lærer ikke må undervise i det 4de bud. Du vet naturligvis, at vi er kommet ned i det 20de Århundrede.