Quotes About Development

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

we will make progress if we freely admit that we have no magic.

to swim, "Don't jump in that water until you learn how to swim." When actually you will never learn how to swim until you get in the water. People have to have an opportunity to develop themselves and govern

A country with secure property rights, scientific inquiry and technological innovation will become richer. But, since division of labour is limited by the size of the market, it will also benefit from trade, not just in goods and services, but in ideas, capital and people. The smaller a country is, the greater the benefits. Trade is far cheaper than empire, just as internal development is a less costly route to prosperity than plunder. This was the heart of Angell's argument.

Certainly since the Middle Ages we have covered a lot of (medical) ground, gathered an enormous quantity of knowledge and as a result we have so much knowledge that we reach the point of being able to connect the available knowledge, bringing it together. This would foster a deeper insight of the human body and be helpful to develop an overview of the body. The connectivity of knowledge is what this book is about.

Papert's Principle: Some of the most crucial steps in mental growth are based not simply on acquiring new skills, but on acquiring new administrative ways to use what one already knows.

But we can't change history. We can only try to improve what happens today and in our future.

Sometimes, he said, it is necessary to go back before we can move forward.

Have you noticed, she asked him, how standing still can sometimes be no different from moving backward? For the whole world moves on and leaves one behind.

We can always do anything as long as we are alive. We can always change, grow, evolve into a far better version of ourselves. It is surely what life is for.

There was at least as much to learn as there was to be taught.

Their love had developed out of friendship; friendship helped it deepen.

Non si finisce mai d'imparare, Watson. È tutta una serie di lezioni, di cui l'ultima è la più importante.

pero más vale aprender tarde que no aprender nunca.

considero que el cerebro de cada cual es como una pequeña pieza vacía que vamos amueblando con elementos de nuestra elección. Un necio echa mano de cuanto encuentra a su paso, de modo que el conocimiento que pudiera serle útil, o no encuentra cabida o, en el mejor de los casos, se halla tan revuelto con las demás cosas que resulta difícil dar con él.

La educación no termina nunca, Watson. Es una serie de lecciones, de las cuales las más instructivas son las últimas.

Considero que el cerebro de cada cual es como una pequeña pieza vacía que vamos amueblando con elementos de nuestra elección.

Every fresh advance which we make only reveals a fresh ridge beyond. And yet we have surely made some appreciable progress.

of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.

History has taught us that often lies serve her better than the truth; for man is sluggish and has to be led through the desert for forty years before each step in his development. And he has to be driven through the desert with threats and promises, by imaginary terrors and imaginary consolations, so that he should not sit down prematurely to rest and divert himself by worshipping golden calves.

Every jump of technical progress leaves the relative intellectual development of the masses a step behind, and thus causes a fall in the political-maturity thermometer. It takes sometimes tens of years, sometimes generations, for a people's level of understanding gradually to adapt itself to the changed state of affairs, until it has recovered the same capacity for self-government as it had already possessed at a lower stage of civilization.

Brain-washing starts in the cradle.

Each morphogenetic field or organ primordium displays the holistic character of an automous unit, a self-regulating holon. If half of the field's tissue is cut away, the remainder will form not half an organ but a complete organ. If, at a certain stage of its development, the eye-cup is split into several isolated parts, each fragment will form a smaller, but normal, eye; and even the artificially scrambled and filtered cells of a tissue will, as we have seen (page 69), re-form again.

There is, for example, the hoary problem why the skin on the soles of our feet is so much thicker than elsewhere. If the thickening occurred after birth as a result of stress, wear and tear, there would be no problem. But the skin of the sole is already thickened in the embryo which has never walked, bare-foot or otherwise.