The march of the human mind is slow.

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

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture us, we must carry this lesson to its conclusion: that is to say, accept that man was born entirely from the world – not only his flesh and bones but his incredible power of thought.

The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

The whole infrastructure of air travel was, and is, part of government policy. It is not a natural development of a free economic system – at least not in the way that is claimed. The same is true of the roads, of course.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

India should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

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

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

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.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

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.

Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

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.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

Africa is on the rise.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

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

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

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

I aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.

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

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

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‚evolver,‘ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.

I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world… If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

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

I think I’ve got wiser.

For Africa to move forward, you’ve really got to get rid of malaria.

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

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

Creationists make it sound as though a ‚theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That’s a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.