Quotes About Progress

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

the human race would not be responsible enough to wield the intoxicating tools it was now inventing.

Nothing can stop us now.

Perdónales, podríais decir, pues no saben lo que hacen. Pero llega un momento en la historia en el que la ignorancia ya no es un defecto disculpable...; llega un momento en el que sólo la sabiduría tiene el poder de la absolución.

Ojalá nuestra tecnología nunca deje atrás a nuestra filosofía. Ojalá nuestro poder nunca supere a nuestra compasión. Y que el motor del cambio no sea el miedo, sino el amor".

The concept was somewhat like the idea of colonizing Mars—fathomable on an intellectual level, but, at present, well beyond human ability.

From my perspective, however, there has never been an intellectual advancement that has not included God.

The more man learned, the more he realized he did not now.

Vittoria had heard Kohler's Science-as-God lecture before, and she never bought it. Science itself caused half the problems it was trying to solve. "Progress" was Mother Earth's ultimate malignancy.

without a doubt, that we evolved from apes.

ABUNDANCE: THE FUTURE IS BETTER THAN YOU THINK WHAT TECHNOLOGY WANTS THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR

Mother Earth had become a man's world...the male ego had spent two millennia running unchecked by its female counterpart.

it should come as no surprise to us that the greatest invention the human mind has created is the computer—a machine designed specifically to help us create order out of chaos. In fact, the word in Spanish for computer is ordenador—quite literally, 'that which creates order.'

podríais decir, <>. Pero llega un momento en la historia en el que la ignorancia ya no es un defecto disculpable...; llega un momento en el que sólo la sabiduría tiene el poder de la absolución.

In the words of futurist Arthur C. Clarke, 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

There has never been an intellectual advancement that has not included God.

Cambrian Explosion of the Technium. New

Several years had passed since an American kid named Cody Wilson had designed "The Liberator"—the first 3-D-printed polymer gun—and the technology had improved exponentially. The new ceramic and polymer firearms still did not have much power, but what they lacked in range, they more than made up for by being invisible to metal detectors.

In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then go back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.

It was called: Technium.

Dark religions must leave for sweet science to take over.

Watson was probably now considered a primitive, single-celled bacterium on the evolutionary scale of synthetic intelligence.

No matter what your past has been you have a spotless future.

They had the first hospital in America. The first library and zoo. They had the first newspaper, the first TV and radio broadcasts. Pennsylvania had the first capital of the United States. And most importantly, the banana split was invented here!