Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us - where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day.

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.

Give us 20 years, and you'll not recognize this country!

It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday, which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.

With science, technology and globalization, man is changing the world faster than his evolution can keep up with the new dangers.

Regardless of politics, our world will continue to change rapidly.

Whatever science fiction movies we watch now, we can make the technology real in two days. What we can do is not important. What we should do is more important.

I'm not anti-progress, obviously, but I just think progress needs to be a broader thing than just the technology we can create; it's also how we handle it and our level of awareness.

Going from PayPal, I thought: 'Well, what are some of the other problems that are likely to most affect the future of humanity?' Not from the perspective, 'What's the best way to make money?'

There are dangers, but only dangers if people don't understand where technology is taking us.

You can't stop progress, but you can help decide what is progress and what isn't.

The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.

The safest place to be is always halfway into your future, without even knowing what it is.

I believe engineers will save the world.

Science is progressing at such a rapid rate that when you make a prediction and think you are ahead of your time by 100 years you may be ahead of your time by 10 at most.

There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .

The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.

The century would seek to dominate nature as it had never been dominated, would attack the idea of war, poverty and natural catastrophe as never before. The century would create death, devastation and pollution as never before. Yet the century was now attached to the idea that man must take his conception of life out to the stars.

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

I believe the only hope for mankind lies in the hands of our young people.

Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change. While other genres obsess upon so-called eternal verities, SF deals with the possibility that our children may have different problems. They may, indeed, be different than we have been.

Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.