Quotes About Progress

The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.

Reality ensures that the end of history will never come.

Inertia is the first law of history, as it is of physics.

All revolutions in history have obstacles.

All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes.

Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves and each other.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them.

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

Regard for the past only extends to its outward forms.

The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.

When great changes occur in history when great principles are involved as a rule the majority are wrong.

The experience of history should lead us to hope and strive to make the world better, not to despair and resign ourselves to fate.

I have a very strong sense that we only know where we are by looking clearly at where we've come from.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.

Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe.

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.

I think cars encapsulate the history of innovation and style - it's the other side of the coin of the car being public enemy No.1.

The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people.