Quotes About Progress

we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.

To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.

Certain people always say we should go back to nature.I notice they never say we should go forward to nature. It seemstometheyare more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

The primary and most beautiful of nature's qualities is motion

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.

Rocks crumble, make new forms, oceans move the continents, mountains rise up and down like ghosts yet all is natural, all is change.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

One of the most powerful forces in human nature is our belief that change is possible.

No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.

It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

Nature does not demand that we be perfect. It requires only that we grow.

Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.

Nature never gives everything at once.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.

The past assumes the nature of the present.