Quotes About Progress

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.

Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored.

Man, not the earth, makes civilization.

A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.

Man is an ape with possibilities.

To follow the path that others have laid before you is a reasonable course of action; therefore all progress is made by unreasonable men.

The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.

Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the race, and the nation must go down.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.

A woman can do anything a man can do today and then some. She can even have a child without a man.

As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does only and wholly what he must do.

It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.

It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.

So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.

It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.