Quotes About Progress

I don't look like a leading man, whatever they look like. It's changing a little.

In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.

Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.

Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.

What man has done, man can aspire to do.

I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.

The fuel in the earth will be exhausted in a thousand or more years, and its mineral wealth, but man will find substitutes for these in the winds, the waves, the sun's heat, and so forth.

Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.

Men are but children of a larger growth.

We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.

Young men! it 's a critical thing to go Exactly right with a lady in tow; But when you are in the proper track, Just go ahead, and never look back!

On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last!

I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away - must be near at hand.

When did one man ever civilize a people?

The categories of woman and man are too rigid. They're going to give way to new forces. They already have, to a degree, but for most of us, this drama held sway, and we assumed our positions.

The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we manufacture everything there except men.

Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.

You know I'm just getting bigger, man. It's like, my shoulders don't fit in some things.

Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.

It would take one million men, one hundred years

I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.

When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.

Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people.