Quotes About Progress

Remember that the prime consideration of science is the protection and betterment of human life. I would never contravene that.

A few, less constrained by pride and more resilient, survived and had children. Their offspring grew up with no illusions about the supremacy of humankind or anykind. They matured and observed the world around them through different eyes. Roll the log. Give and take. Bend with the wind. Adapt, adapt, adapt …!

It is the task of the First Order to remove the disorder from our own existence, so that civilization may be returned to the stability that promotes progress. A stability that existed under the Empire, was reduced to anarchy by the Rebellion, was inherited in turn by the so-called Republic, and will be restored by us. Future historians will look upon this as the time when a strong hand brought the rule of law back to civilization." Mitaka

Aunque un enunciado pueda ser calidicado de hecho observable porque ha superado todas las pruebas a las que se le haya sometido hasa cierto momeno, esto no quiere decir que necesariamente superará los nuevos tipos de prueba posibles a la luz de los adelantos en el conocimiento y en la tecnología.

Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying

All my life, I kept waiting for things to get better. For the bright promise of mañana. But a funny thing happened while I was waiting for the world to change, Chabele: It didn't. Because I didn't change it.

How did we ever get to believe that faithfulness involved simply retaining past forms and thinking? With the Creator God as our Father, how did we ever become the socially conservative stiflers of innovation that we are so notoriously perceived to be?

we will never be faithful in the biblical sense if we never move from home base.

When we look to the past ... what we are always looking for is whatever is better than we are ... The future cannot teach us because we are the ones who must imagine it.

We must learn to think of our lives as stories that move along recognizable paths, paths followed by our predecessors and indeed indeed

A recovery old-timer had told me: "Time takes time. Don't be in any rush to get this thing. Let it filter in slow. What's the hurry?

I've decided that has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination, our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We've become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.

Indeed, what sense is there in continuing the present when one has seen the future?

Carroll and other physicists believe that order is intimately connected to the "arrow" of time. In particular, the forward direction of time is determined by the movement of order to disorder.

What we call the "future" is the condition of increasing mess; what we call the "past" is increasing tidiness.

At the present time... we certainly do not know all the laws of nature, and it is a good bet that most of our current formulations of those laws will be revised in the future. Yet the great majority of scientists believe that a complete and final set of laws governing all physical phenomena exists, and that we are making continual progress toward discovery of those laws.

As with the destruction of the environment, no one intended to rob us of our interior lives. Each of us once swallowed that first bite of the wired world, then the second. Then we were addicted. Soon, we couldn't remember what we had lost. Our children, of course, were born into the wired world, never knowing any other way of life. All this in the name of "progress.

For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same.

It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.

Not thou alone, but all humanity doth in its progress fable emulate. Whence came thy rocket-ships and submarine if not from Nautilus, from Cavorite? Your trustiest companions since the cave, we apparitions guided mankind's tread, our planet, unseen counterpart to thine, as permanent, as ven'rable, as true. On dream's foundation matter's mudyards rest. Two sketching hands, each one the other draws: the fantasies thou've fashioned fashion thee.

Em desacordo com todas as minhas inclinações, decidi seguir em frente.

man should be his own ideal and champion, however long it takes him to arrive there.

Bed-sheet creases print a river delta on Mick's back and in his restlessness it strikes him that civilisation and its history are similarly bagatelles, deluded into thinking that their progress has the ordered logic of a chess match when it's more the random ping of Tiddlywinks.

An intractable problem can only be resolved by stepping beyond conventional solutions