Quotes About Progress

Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.

When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.

The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history.

It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation.

So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.

A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.

History doesn't pass the dishes again.

Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.

The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.

History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.

History does not unfold: it piles up.

We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.

If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.

The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.

People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.

History doesn't proceed in incremental little notches.

We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.

History is as much an art as a science.

The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed.

History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.

History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.