Quotes about Progress

Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!

We can't solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them

a person who never make a mistake, never tried anything new.

Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been devided as fools and madmen.

We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the co-operation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.