Quotes About Progress

The time—which, looking back, seems so idyllic—is gone forever when individuals or relatively small groups could be completely self-sufficient. It is only a slight exaggeration to say that mankind constitutes even now a planetary community of production and consumption.

The development from a religion of fear to moral religion is a great step in peoples' lives.

Locura es hacer la misma cosa una y otra vez esperando obtener diferentes resultados

Every theory is killed sooner or later in that way. But if the theory has good in it, that good is embodied and continued in the next theory.

HUMANITY IS GOING TO REQUIRE A SUBSTANTIALLY NEW WAY OF THINKING IF IT IS TO SURVIVE.

It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used to create them.

Entre las dificultades se esconde la oportunidad

True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis. ~ Albert Einstein

Perché questa stupenda scienza applicata che risparmia lavoro e rende la vita più facile ci porta così poca felicità? La risposta è semplice: perché non abbiamo ancora imparato a farne un uso assennato

La violenza può talvolta aver eliminato rapidamente gli ostacoli, ma non ha mai dimostrato di sapere creare alcunché

There is nothing that is more certain sign of insanity than to do the same thing over and over and expect the results to be different

I fear that technology will destroy human interaction

Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You must keep moving to maintain the balance.

In my opinion, the present symptoms of decadence are explained by the fact that the development of industry and machinery has made the struggle for existence very much more severe, greatly to the detriment of the free development of the individual.

Se sapessimo (esattamente) quel che stiamo facendo, non si chiamerebbe ricerca.

Logik bringt dich von A nach B, deine Vorstellungskraft bringt dich überall hin.

Die reinste Form des Wahnsinns ist es, alles beim alten zu lassen und zu hoffen, dass sich etwas ändert.

Does there truly exist an insuperable contradiction between religion and science? Can religion be superseded by science?

If you only do what you can do, you can never be more than what you are now.

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them

love of truth and insight which lent wings to the spirit of the Renaissance has grown cold

However we select from nature a complex (of phenomena) using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn out to be forever appropriate...But I do not doubt that the day will come when that description (the general theory of relativity), too, will have to yield to another one, for reasons which at present we do not yet surmise. I believe that that this process of deepening the theory has no limits.