Quotes About Progress

When we destroy something crated by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.

The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of chemical reaction.

The universe is not in a steady state; there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards.

The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.

If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.

It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.

That's the nature of research you don't know what in hell you're doing.

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.

It is a kind of law of nature. The goal one aims for can rarely be reached by a direct road.

It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.

Nature does not care that you are comfortable, only that you evolve.

Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.

Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.

A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.