Quotes about Progress

The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.

The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behaviour.

The discovery that the universe was expanding was one of the great intellectual revolutions of the twentieth century.

We have seen in this chapter how, in less than half a century, man's view of the universe, formed over millennia, has been transformed.

We are all time travelers, journeying together into the future. But let us work together to make that future a place we want to visit.

Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in uncharted terrain.

Yes, the world has been different ever since Darwin. But no less exciting, instructing, or uplifting; for if we cannot find purpose in nature, we will have to define it for ourselves.

This is a changing world. It changes from day to day, year to year, and from age to age. Rivers deepen their gorges as they carry more land to the sea. Mountains rise, only to be leveled gradually by winds and rain. Continents rise and sink into the sea. Such are the gradual changes of the physical earth as days add into years and years combine to become ages.

The slow pace of our perfection has to be borne with patience, provided that on our part we always do whatever we can to continue advancing.

If you stop tending to flowers when they lose a few petals, you will never grow a garden.

Don't waste time watering a weed hoping to transform it into a flower.

Be brave and take risks… You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward.