Quotes About Progress

To err is nature, to rectify error is glory.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

To be modern is to destroy nature.

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

My mind can take no hold on the present world, nor rest in it a moment, but my whole nature rushes onward with irresistible force towards a future and better state of being.

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

As you solve one set of problems, new ones appear. That is part of the nature of life.

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.

Light may be shed on man and his origins.

The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.

From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals, directly follows.

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.

Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes