Edward Gibbon Quotes

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.

The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

Once you go great, you never go good..You never go back, even if you could.

It's never too late to get good at something.

Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.

The history of science shows that the progress of science has constantly been hampered by the tyrannical influence of certain conceptions that finally came to be considered as dogma. For this reason, it is proper to submit periodically to a very searching examination, principles that we have come to assume without any more discussion.

Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.

Just keep taking the next step and keep having excellence in the ordinary.

The important thing is that over time, scientific progress transforms things that used to have to be dealt with in a problem-solving mode down to the pattern-recognition space; and from pattern recognition into the rules-based mode. This is the mechanism by which less-trained people are enabled to do more sophisticated things. This is always the way disruption happens. It enables a larger population of less-experienced people to do more sophisticated things.

We're putting all of our energy into making it right. And we have already had several software updates. We've got a huge plan to make it even better. It will get better and better over time. We screwed up. That's the fact.

The whole point of science is that most of it is uncertain. That's why science is exciting--because we don't know. Science is all about things we don't understand. The public, of course, imagines science is just a set of facts. But it's not. Science is a process of exploring, which is always partial. We explore, and we find out things that we understand. We find out things we thought we understood were wrong. That's how it makes progress.

I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn't it?

When I lifted weights, I didn't lift just to maintain my muscle tone. I lifted to increase what I already had, to push to a new limit. Every time I worked, I was getting a little better. I kept moving that limit back and back. Every time I walked out of the gym, I was a little better than when I walked in.

Progress is the life-style of man.

No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art.

Look and you wlll see, that which was can never be. When they seek a boy your age, Run, you flippin moron, run!

I think the long-term goal is to continue to grow as people and as a unit, individually and together, and hopefully continue to keep making records that are better every time, because if you're not moving forward, you're either standing still or regressing.

Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.

One is always nearer by not keeping still.

Sometimes there's a general arc that you want to try and get better the longer you do something.

Make the work you are doing today better than the work you did yesterday.

We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.

Doing work points the way to new and better work to be done.

The direction in which we are moving is more important than where we are at the moment. Goal setting should cause us to stretch as we make our way.