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Quotes About Progress

I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
~ Randy Schekman
Books are the carriers of civilization... Books are humanity in print.
~ Barbara Tuchman
Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.
~ Michael Pollan
To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
~ James Madison
Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.
~ James Larkin
The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.
~ Paul Allen
What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?
~ John Brunner
The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.
~ Peace Pilgrim
Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.
~ Heinrich Heine
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
~ Richard Dawkins
Progress of mankind is the decadence of humanity.
~ Siddharth Katragadda
I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our humanity.
~ Diane Ackerman
Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.
~ David Ehrenfeld
There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.
~ Stewart Brand
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.
~ Oscar Wilde
As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form or another, on which we can all count.
~ Aberjhani
Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.
~ Astro Teller
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
~ Thomas Mann
I always have been optimistic about humanity's future. Always. Even at the most dismaying of times.
~ Patrick Stewart
All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.
~ Ernest Renan
When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.
~ Robert Cailliau