Quotes About Progress

It is one of the defects of an age with no true sense of its past to suppose that what is now is what has always been, and that anything else is either novel or wrong or both.

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Apartheid has fallen, see, we die right next to each other now, in intimate proximity. It's just the living part we still have to work out.

falling short to deliver responses is one of the most popular blunders that innovators create.

you can be assured that the inciting events call for you to sacrifice your comfort and ease in order for your story to move forward. It's easy to ignore such inciting events...It's easy to flee your story.

shortly after that, their brains began to grow! The human

Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.

May our philosophies keep pace with our technologies. May our compassion keep pace with our powers. And may love, not fear, be the engine of change.

the strange ideas we derive today will one day be our celebrated truths

History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths.

Religion has always persecuted science.

Every generation's breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation's Technology

If our ancestors could see us today, surely they would think us gods.

Man's morality was not advancing as fast as man's science. Mankind was not spiritually evolved enough for the powers he possessed. We have never created a weapon we have not used!

Science itself caused half the problems it was trying to solve. Progress was Mother Earth's ultimate malignancy.

Which would you choose? A world without religion? Or a world without science?

Human beings are evolving into something different," he declared. "We are becoming a hybrid species—a fusion of biology and technology.

Where we come from... is not nearly as startling as where we are going.

Over the last fifty years," the tall man declared, "our sins against Mother Nature have grown exponentially." He paused. "I fear for the soul of humankind.

In Darwinian terms, a religion that ignores scientific facts and refuses to change its beliefs is like a fish stranded in a slowly drying pond and refusing to flip to deeper water because it doesn't want to believe its world has changed.

uncertainty is always a precursor to sweeping change; transformation is always preceded by upheaval and fear.

Science can heal, or science can kill. It depends on the soul of the man using the science.

Sweet science will banish the dark religions ... so that enlightened religions can flourish.

And maybe that's why the only thing that keeps me going is my belief that we are capable of being better than we are Ã¢â'¬Â¦ capable of taking action to avoid a catastrophic future.