In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

In order for us to have a future that’s exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we’re a space-bearing civilization.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Every artist was first an amateur.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

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.

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

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

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.

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.

With the amount of fixed expense that goes into developing something like the BE-4 engine, you want it to be used as much as possible.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of another.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

To make headway, improve your head.

Life is our dictionary.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we’re not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.