Quotes About Progress

Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. Abraham Lincoln

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back." ?

When I learn new things I change my mind, what do you do?

If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on

Advancement—improvement in condition—is the order of things in a society of equals.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

The only difference between stepping stones and stumbling blocks is the way we address the rocks cast into our path.

Sou um caminhante lento, mas nunca caminho para trás.

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.

You live it forward, but understand it backward.

We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

Life is like that. You live it forward but understand it backward.

What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.

Smith believed not that markets make men free but that free men move toward markets. The difference is small but decisive; it is most of what we mean by humanism.

Much of what feels like mastery in adult life is actually the avoidance of a challenge.

In our time, even the most seemingly transgressive visions of technology in everyday life invariably fall back to the familiar furniture of capital investment, surplus extraction and exploitation. We don't even speak of progress any longer, but rather of 'innovation.

Chekhov, knowing the weight of his own country's history of serfdom, spoke of how Russians must squeeze the slave out of themselves, drop by drop. Russia's continuing troubles show how long and hard a task this is.

Affonso tried to do something as difficult in his time as in ours: to be a selective modernizer. He

The tank suffered, too, from the era's strange mismatch between firepower and communications: it carried no radio, only homing pigeons, which could be pushed out a small opening in hopes they would fly back to headquarters.

the optimism, the boundless confidence of a society that had not yet seen or imagined the world wars, the belief that humankind had the capacity to briskly eradicate all barriers that lay in the path of progress. "Our

but also thought of everything, invented everything and changed everything.

By the time we stopped for the night, Billy Milsap was as big as an ocean liner.

Almost all science is done by very normal people

There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.