Quotes About Progress

Escribir puede ser exigente, pero los momentos de progreso compensan de sobra. Cuando creamos, siento que estamos a sólo un milímetro de lo divino.

One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue

When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

I say we shall always have native crime to fear until the native people of this country have worthy purposes to inspire them and worthy goals to work for. For it is only because they see neither purpose nor goal that they turn to drink and crime and prostitution.

People gravitate toward products that are bold, but instantly comprehensible: Most Advanced Yet Acceptable--MAYA.

The science fiction master Arthur C. Clarke gave us the law 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic

one of the first light bulbs ever manufactured remains lit, over a hundred years after it was first switched on.

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

Beyond the ebb and flow of racial progress lies the still viable and widely accepted (though seldom expressed) belief that America is a white country in which blacks, particularly as a group, are not entitled to the concern, resources, or even empathy that would be extended to similarly situated whites.

At bottom, though, Brown helped maintain a stable society by moving it forward, far less than civil rights advocates had hoped but far more than opponents felt was needed or necessary.

If three hundred years of chainsaws, CFCs, depleted uranium, automobiles, genetic engineering, airplanes, routine international trade, computers, plastics, endocrine disruptors, pesticides, vivisection, internal combustion engines, feller bunchers, dragline excavators, televisions, cell phones, and nuclear (and conventional) bombs are not enough to convey the picture, then that picture will never be conveyed.

Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!

Time takes away the grief of men.

We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.

We may prefer to think of ourselves as fallen angels, but in reality we are rising apes.

Detrás de la fachada de la ciudad moderna, sigue morando el viejo mono desnudo. Sólo los nombres han cambiado: en vez de caza, decimos "trabajo"; en vez de campo de caza, "barrio comercial", en vez de cubil, "hogar", en vez de apareamiento, "matrimonio"; en vez de compañera, "esposa", etcétera.

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

We learn from history that we don't learn from history!

El retroceso que sufrirá América Latina en sus condiciones de desarrollo, a situaciones existentes en décadas anteriores, es muy preocupante.

What we possess is temporary, but what we become is permanent.

Each moment is a fruit of the past and seed of future.

Only when humans realize that they have been blessed with the intellectual wherewithal to outgrow animal needs and fears, will they truly evolve and discover their potential.

Wisdom thus is always work in progress.

the social body also needs to die and be reborn, locate itself in the new structure.