Quotes About Progress

Here are some dates at which women were granted the vote:   New Zealand 1893 Australia 1902 Finland 1906 Norway 1913 United States 1920 Britain 1928 France 1945 Belgium 1946 Switzerland 1971 Kuwait 2006

Evolution is within us, around us, between us, and its workings are embedded in the rocks of eons past.

although evolution may seem, in some vague sense, a 'good thing', especially since we are the product of it, nothing actually 'wants' to evolve.

it is ultimately these mistakes that make evolution possible.

The priests of the different religious sects…dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight, and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subdivision of the duperies on which they live.

Our mental burka window is narrow because it didn't need to be any wider in order to assist our ancestors to survive.

We can't prove anything in science. But the best that scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they tried.

Bir ça??n dini, bir sonrakinin edebi eÄŸlencesidir. Ralph Waldo

Hitler no doubt killed more people than Genghis, but he had twentieth-century technology at his disposal.

Most scientists are bored by what they have already discovered. It is ignorance that drives them on.

Survival machines that can simulate the future are one jump ahead of survival machines who can only learn on the basis of overt trial and error.

Earlier than about 10,000 years ago, all human populations were hunter gatherers. Soon, probably none will be. Those not extinct will be 'civilised' — or corrupted, depending on your point of view.

EÄŸer bilim tarihi bize tek bir ÅŸey gösteriyorsa, o da cehaletimize 'Tanr?' etiketini yap??t?rarak bir yere ulaÅŸamad???m?zd?r.

Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world championship. Humanitiy needs a lesson in humility.

Could it have been the drawing of maps that boosted our ancestors beyond the critical threshold which the other apes just failed to cross?

We are liberated by calculation and reason to visit regions of possibility that had once seemed out of bound or inhabited by dragons.

Pushing away, pushing in: the pattern of so much that was to follow.

He was now a surgeon, and he assumed he would marry Ella, and though they had never spoken about it, he knew she did too. He thought that marrying Ella was another thing like completing his medical degree, receiving his commission, another step up, along, onwards. Ever since Tom's cave, where he had recognised the power of reading, every step forward for Dorrigo had been like that.

Life was a bit about luck. Mostly though, it was a stacked deck. Life was only about getting the next footstep right.

All we really want is to get to the point where the past can explain nothing about us and we can get on with life.

Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle.

Just exactly what that good life was--the one I expected--I cannot tell you now exactly, though I wouldn't say it has not come to pass, only that much has come in between.

when you're young your opponent is the future; but when you're not young, your opponent's the past and everything you've done in it and the problem of getting away from it.

Most things dopn't stay the way they are very long.