Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution.

Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks.

We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.

Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.

Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, “Let’s do things differently.” The majority didn’t wake up and say, “Oh, let’s just free the slaves.” ... Society always progressed because a relatively small group of people — usually considered outrageous radicals by the status quo of their time — had a better idea and articulated another way. That’s simply how evolution works; it’s the mutation — the member of the species who does things differently - that points the way to the future because they’re better adapted for survival.

Humanity is the start of the race; I say Humanity is the mould to break away from, the crust to break through, the coal to break into fire, The atom to be split.

Progress is often just a good idea away.

Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.

This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever. But I'm not so interested in nostalgia. I'm interested in the future.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive.

I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.

Change is not always progress.

I hold that man in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

You cannot make a living on the past …the stone age did not end because they ran out of stones.

The visionaries of yesterday are the realists of today.

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

Many people repeat the past. I'm not interested. I prefer evolution.

It's all about evolution and for us, we try to think outside the box and not try to duplicate what we've done in the past.

We don't want to live in the past; we want to go into the future.

The reality is you either step into the future, or you become a dinosaur.

I always want to be on the cutting edge.