Quotes About Progress

And just when you start thinking that you've accepted who you are, that changes, too. Because who you are is not permanent.

Personal growth must sometimes be measured by distance travelled rather than by current position

I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was.

I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was. Or so I tell myself; and for now, that is enough.

I'm rediscovering my backbone, which is a good start.

It doesn't matter how fast you move, I learned, if you never go anywhere.

The rebellion was over, the Union restored, and after more than two centuries there was no more slavery from which to run. The vast work of repairing its human devastation had barely begun.

Every science fiction is a reading of the period that produced it.

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist."3

Not until 1992 did the Catholic Church admit publicly that it had erred in the matter of censoring Galileo's ideas.

This is one of the reasons science has made such dramatic progress. An undergraduate science major today knows more about science and math than did Sir Isaac Newton, one of the most renowned scientists who ever lived. Even in this introductory astronomy course, you will learn about objects and processes that no one a few generations ago even dreamed existed.

The poor have been getting richer faster in the poor states and the rich have been getting richer faster in the rich states; see figure 5.3.

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.

know how to turn a failed experiment into a life lesson

Ada kecenderungan untuk meninggalkan kegagalan dan membiarkannya tertimbusdek masa.Jumlah pembelajaran yang amat banyak terbazir begitu saja kerana kegagalan tidak di kupas sepenuhnya.Jadi pembelajaran sebenar adalah apa yg dipelajari drpd kegagalan.

Earth writes its history with one hand and erases it with the other, and as we go further back in time, erasure gains the upper hand.

It's [Canada] going to be a great country when they finish unpacking it.

Colleges should be helping to build the next generation's future, not mortgaging it.

Globalization has forced us to confront an extraordinarily diverse world that is undergoing massive change at a pace unimaginable to our parents or grandparents.

All that I can claim is that my deliberate policy of leaving him largely to his own devices and standing by to assist when necessary, allowed his natural mathematical genius to progress uninhibited …

he talked excitedly of the future of automatic computers, and reassured them that mathematicians would not be put out of work. In

The point lay not in this or that label, but in the fact that this generation were going to think for themselves, take a wider view of the world than their parents had done, and not be frightened by bogey words.

He did not wish to be the man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

you'll have to forgive me, darling, I am old-fashioned, I believe in General Motors and the clarity of the gods . . .