Quotes about Progress

When you are through trying to improve, you are through.

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.

One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Nothing happens until something moves.

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

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.