If you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.

God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

Gospel music is never pessimistic, it’s never ‚oh my god, its all going down the tubes‘, like the blues often is.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It’s a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

I am a normal guy from the Black Forest, and I do not compare myself with the geniuses.

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.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn’t do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

Doing a show for three weeks is nothing like doing a show for seven seasons.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

The only definition by which America’s best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.

We believe that according the name ‚investors‘ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‚romantic.‘

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

New roads; new ruts.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

But there’s so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That’s where we are. We don’t get our hair caught in it, but that’s the level of primitiveness of where we are. We’re in 1908.