Quotes About Progress

There is no nature in an instant.

We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature.

Technology is lust removed from nature.

... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics

The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.

The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

Man in a word has no nature; what he has... is history.

Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes?

A man had to learn, it was his nature.

Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.

Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress.

Development comes from within. Nature does not hurry but advances slowly.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.

Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection have molded our nature, so too can our culture.

The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.

Change is the very nature of nature.

It is the nature of walls that they should fall.

It is nature that is driving us towards perfection, and eventually she will bring everyone there.

Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began?

Television has changed. The very nature of it is not even television anymore.

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.

According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.

Nature abhors the vacuum tube.

It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.