#progress

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. ↗

— William Blake

#energy #existence #hate #human #human existence

I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#progress

I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

#backward #begin #believed #epochs #i

As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'. ↗

— Sam Brownback

#consider #fast #free #free market #give

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery. ↗

— Vince Cable

#answers #humility #means #partnership #party

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time. ↗

— Karel Capek

#any #childhood #constitutes #glory #had

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#beneath #born #every #every man #fact

I would say national security is work in progress. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#national #national security #progress #say #security

I was the candidate first time a Green or any progressive third party has ever been in a national televised debate. I was in five of them. And the response from the public was overwhelming. ↗

— Peter Camejo

#been #candidate #debate #ever #first

I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots. ↗

— James Cameron

#around #because #builder #could #design