Quotes About Progress

Every so often, progress on race and religion occur precisely because an issue surfaces.

Whether I was The Legend Killer, The Viper, The Apex Predator, nothing's really changed.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

To the brains of our predecessors we owe all of our inheritance of civilization and culture.

You can't grow if you're going to say: 'The contributions of my predecessors are greater than anything I can ever achieve.' Each generation has to have a chance to find itself.

It is the natural order of things that successive generations will achieve more than their predecessors.

Being that I started so young and super independent from the ground up, talking to people in the same predicament that I once was in is humbling. It makes you appreciative of the come-up and how far I have come. It is inspiring.

You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve.

The best way to predict the future is to change it.

Where humanity is going to find itself in, say, 20, 30, 40, or 50 years would be very difficult to predict, I think. There are moments, of course, when you think that it's going from bad to worse, but there are other moments when you think that human efforts are really flowering into something really fantastic.

The important thing to remember is war does not progress linearly. The future course of events is going to be very difficult to predict with a high degree of precision.

If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it.

I think it's impossible to predict the future but it is possible to look at the past and see how one can do differently from what one's ancestors have done and learn from their mistakes, and one can see how even though there are enormous forces which stop one doing what one wants to, there are little holes in which the individual can do something.

I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

If innovations were predictable, they wouldn't be discoveries.

Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.

The Apollo generation wasn't a historical fluke. It was the predictable result of what happens when a free nation actually decides on something and goes for it. We can do it again, do it better, and do it for keeps this time. But we must decide: Will America, as a nation, support the settlement of space?

There's no way anybody could have predicted how fast this industry would take off.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

Email did precisely what I predicted, back in 1978, it took over the postal mail process and system of writing letters.

It is not that Covid is going to impede the progress of humanity. It is not as much a changing event as it was being predicted, according to me.

My faith in the economic potential of the low carbon economy is not an untested prediction.

Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?

These dire predictions of COVID are behind us. Covid is getting milder and people are learning to treat it better. The percentage of deaths is coming down. We are learning to live with it.