Quotes About Progress

No creature on Earth ever has organized themselves in ways that we have, with the capacity to alter the nature of nature the way we have.

Nobody ever feels like they've arrived. That's just the nature of being a creative type of person. You always feel like you can get better or reach more people.

The nature of revolutions is that they destroy the perfect and enable the impossible.

Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency (and that's just human nature) that we had before, when we couldn't vote, couldn't use mass transportation, or drink from the fountains.

The next great step of mankind is to step into the nature of his own mind.

All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.

I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers.

As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine.

It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?

In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today.

I have called this principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term natural selection.

Yesterday is not ours to recover but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

I am not convinced within myself that to its core and as a whole, humanity has, as some like to assume, progressed a great deal over the millennia. Human technology? Of course. Human beings? Hardly.

The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men better, and to change human nature.

Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured.

Human nature in time is engraved in history.

You can't change nature, son!""Change IS nature, dad, the part we can influence. And it all starts when we decide.

Our reality defines itself by people who strive for change

The earth is always changing...readjusting to our existence. Each era is full of unique challenges

Leave the world in better conditions in wich you found it.

Most of what is now "bitter" for our old nature is going to be useful for our nature

The nature of the kingdom must mature within you

For growing again, one has to fall apart and fall to bits.

We all are travelers traveling on a very big spaceship called Earth. Let's not ruin the engines of our very own spaceship in the name of development.