Thor Heyerdahl Quotes

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.

Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.

In differentiation, not uniformity, lies the path of progress.

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.

When something is 'new and improved', which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it.

I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.

Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

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

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

You either get better, or you don't progress.

Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.

I'm really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.

All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compared with what will finally mature.

The world's been pretty good at coming up with new ways of doing things.

If you don't have problems, you don't have opportunities.

Normal people … believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

I think human beings are funny, tricky things.

Innovation means change.

Ultimately, progress and innovation win.

Innovation is kind of a sub-piece of change.

Impact is just always improving at all angles. There is a lot of creativity and thought that goes into everything.