Quotes about Progress

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.

Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.

I believe that better times are coming.

The time—which, looking back, seems so idyllic—is gone forever when individuals or relatively small groups could be completely self-sufficient. It is only a slight exaggeration to say that mankind constitutes even now a planetary community of production and consumption.

The development from a religion of fear to moral religion is a great step in peoples' lives.

Every theory is killed sooner or later in that way. But if the theory has good in it, that good is embodied and continued in the next theory.