Quotes on Future

As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the future. The future stands still, it is we who move in infinite space.

Who doesn’t respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to a future

For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

Traditional thinking is all about "what is" Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.

Eventually we must leave Earth-at least a certain number of our progeny must as our sun approaches the end of its solar life cycle. But just as terrestrial explorers have always led the way for settlers, this will also happen extraterrestrially. Earth is our cradle, not our final destiny.

Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to explain the tendency to have one preference about the future, but a very different preference when the future becomes the present.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

As in creating some significant work the artist first experiences something akin to dream awareness that becomes clarified in the creative process itself, so we must first have a vision of the future sufficiently entrancing that it will sustain us in the transformation of the human project that is now in process.

I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.

As citizens, I'm asking you not to leave any child behind. I'm asking you not to be color blind, but to be color brave, so that every child knows that their future matters and their dreams are possible.

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution.

You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born.

I used to think consciousness itself was a virtue, so I tried to keep it all in my head at the same time: past, future, etc.

Everyone succumbs to finitude. I suspect I am not the only one who reaches this pluperfect state. Most ambitions are either achieved or abandoned; either way, they belong to the past. The future, instead of the ladder toward the goals of life, flattens out into a perpetual present.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Seize today and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow.

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on Earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand the data.

Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.