Quotes About Progress

The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.

Does man Progress? A thousand questions answered yesterday create a thousand questions today.

In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.

Compassion--that's the one thing no machine ever had. Maybe it's the one thing that keeps man ahead of them.

If there's one great thing I think that's happened over the years, it's that women are being accepted into a man's world in all different areas, whether it's flying an airplane or driving a race car.

No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.

Corruption of morals is rapid enough in any country without a bounty from government. And...the Chief Magistrate of the United States should be the last man to accelerate its progress.

A lot of men were also becoming more attuned and less afraid of women [in the nineties ].

I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.

Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.

I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done.

Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.

I was a man by middle school.

A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.

Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.

Makes of men date, like makes of car.

Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.

Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.

Nature attains perfection, but man never does.

When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.

There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.

Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone.