Quotes about Development

Begin now to be what you will be hereafter.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.

If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character

Traditionally these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics. Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

Science seems to have uncovered a set of laws that, within the limits set by the uncertainty principle, tell us how the universe will develop with time, if we know its state at any one time. These laws may have originally been decreed by God, but it appears that he has since left the universe to evolve according to them and does not now intervene in it.

On the observational side, by far the most important development has been the measurement of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background radiation by COBE (the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite)

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.

No tree becomes large without smaller trees hoping its branches get cut off.

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.