Progress Limitation Quotes

I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.

We can't let 535 people continue to limit the progress of a nation of more than 300 million.

Our dominant values that emphasize competition and scarcity limit continued progress.

It will do us little good to wire the world if we limit our vision. It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circuit our souls.

While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all.

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

I do not believe in eternal progress, that we are growing on ever and ever in a straight line. It is too nonsensical to believe. There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle. The force sent out will complete the circle and return to its starting place.

They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other.