Quotes About Progress

For the youth, the changes were too slow. For the aging traditionalists, the changes were blasphemous.

Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our pas

This is the future I would be giving my child?

Every spiritual metamorphosis is preceded by a physical one.

We evolved from apes and we're going extinct.

Every great philosophical shift in history began with a single bold idea.

humans believed that the earth was flat and ships venturing across the seas risked sailing off the edge. However, when we proved that the earth was round, the flat-earth advocates were eventually silenced. Creationists are today's flat-earth advocates, and I would be shocked if anyone still believes in Creationism a hundred years from now.

there is only one way Christianity will survive the coming age of science. We must stop rejecting the discoveries of science. We must stop denouncing provable facts. We must become a spiritual partner of science, using our vast experience—

I call it 'Prayer for the Future'. Edmond closed his eyes and spoke slowly, with startling assurance. 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.

Your victory has been inevitable. Never before has it been as obvious as it is at this moment. Science is the new God." What

El éxito es la capacidad de seguir adelante, de fracaso en fracaso, sin perder el entusiasmo.

I reject monogamy as an affront to evolution.

Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand. There are those who create... and those who tear down.

The time for action has come. Not until we purge our species of superstitious thinking can we embrace all that our minds have to offer.

no hay que olvidar que, hace siglos, nuestra religión formó la Inquisición y mató a mujeres y niños inocentes en nombre de Dios. A causa de ello, hemos tenido que pedir perdón al mundo y también a nosotros mismos. Con el tiempo, sin embargo, hemos conseguido que las heridas cicatricen.

Fie ca filosofiile noastre sa tina pasul cu tehnologia. Fie ca intelegerea si compasunea noastra sa tina pasul cu puterea pe care o dobandim. Si fie ca dragostea, nu frica, sa fie motorul schimbarii noastre.

Memorial Bridge already?

Transhumanist

The price of greatness…is responsibility.' " The words resonated for Langdon, who often feared the human race would not be responsible enough to wield the intoxicating tools it was now inventing.

The Geek shall inherit the world

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

Mankind, if unchecked, functions like cancer.

Langdon wondered if maybe Edmond had discovered that human intellect, after aeons of progress, was now on the decline. There were certainly alarming indicators to suggest this might be true.