Jennifer Stone Quotes

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.

Change is not always progress.

Driven by globalization and technology our country and our economy is becoming different every day.

Everything new endangers something old. A new machine replaces human hands; a new source of power threatens old businesses; a new trade route wipes out the supremacy of old ports and brings prosperity to new ones. This is the price that must be paid for progress and it is worth it.

We have changed because we have learned.

Absolutely everything undergoes evolvement - whether it's technology, journalism, the NFL, medicine.

People mature. They learn. They get better at things. You're different when you're 45 than when you're 25.

I think the game's evolving - it always is. You don't want to be a dinosaur. You want to evolve with it.

Innovations, which are the births of time.

This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.

Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge.

You have to keep evolving.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

Science can never be a closed book. It is like a tree, ever growing, ever reaching new heights. Occasionally the lower branches, no longer giving nourishment to the tree, slough off. We should not be ashamed to change our methods; rather we should be ashamed never to do so.

Knowledge is our most powerful engine of production.

Obsolescence is the very hallmark of progress.

Prosperity belongs to those who learn new things the fastest.

Progress knows nothing of fixity. It cannot be pressed into a definite mould…. Progress is ever renewing, ever becoming, ever changing--never is it within the law.

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it .... For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.