Quotes About Progress

Man ... feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress.

By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man -- man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.

Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.

Unlike modern man, who dreams of the world he will make, pre-modern man dreamed of the world he left.

Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.

We can keep whatever we like about manhood but adjust the parts of the definition that are keeping men back.

Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation.

Whatever is is a movement; man is a movement-to something other than man.

The seed must move to the soil; the tree must turn to the sun. The river must leave its source to reach the sea. And man must forget man, the maker, in order to make the world.

The trouble with men is that they are mean-they may mean, but they don't move.

If the monkeys had been concerned only with monkey Beings they would never have become men.

We must leave these beginnings, beings, believings- man, what are you growing?

Men make history, not the other way around.

I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.

Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.

The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination,whose vast abdomens betray them.

Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.

We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.

Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?

The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.

I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.

We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.