progress Quotes

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

You're never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.

The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.

I want to keep on the move, keep stimulated and challenged.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.