Quotes About Progress

I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.

Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common rooms, and to widen the intellectual horizons of the place.

It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be; without it, 'progress' would become mechanical and trivial.

Any machine that can run a browser is not thin. The browser has to be the thickest application man has ever invented, and it's getting thicker faster than anything ever development by man.

Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out of the swamp and escaped from the jungle.

Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on.

The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values.

The man who builds a factory, builds a temple.

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

Man, I think the sky is the limit for this team.

Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look at the habitations and the achievements of men!

Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

Men of thought and men of action, clear the Way!

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one

The man of the millennium is much more liberated than the man of the '90s.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.

In our educational institutions applied science may almost be described as a "no-man's land."

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.

A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.

The survival of the fittest is going to make some man very lonesome some day.