Quotes about Progress

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

I just need to believe that we're not in some form of stasis, that we can try to be whoever we want to be. We probably won't get there, but we might get a little bit closer, you know?

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

If we can live a day in peace, then why couldn't we live a week in peace? If we can master a week, why not a month? If we can master a month in peace, why not a year in peace? And if we can master a year, then certainly we can master a lifetime of peace as God's highest creation.

Any time you establish new territory for yourself, you've got to feel good.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure...it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Natural selection is an inanimate process, devoid of consciousness, yet is a tireless refiner, an ingenious craftsman.

I]f it be any part of religion to believe that man was made by a good Being, it is more consistent with that faith to believe, that this Being gave all human faculties that they might be cultivated and unfolded, not rooted out and consumed, and that he takes delight in every nearer approach made by his creatures to the ideal conception embodied in them, every increase in any of their capabilities of comprehension, of action, or of enjoyment.

Do not force me to look any longer at what I have become. Tell me instead what is to come.

He knew that an existing structure had to be torn down or at least restructured before anything new and lasting could be built on the same foundation