Quotes About Progress

The relationship with WWE obviously has gotten better because after my name has been shoved down their throats from 2K Games for the past years, they finally passed off on it. They finally okayed it.

. . . a relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest commitment.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

Just because a romantic relationship ends doesn't mean that the other facets of your relationship have to end... or, indeed, doesn't mean they can't get better.

What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.

Whenever the clergy succeeded in conquering political power in any country, the result has been disastrous to the interests of religion and inimical to the progress of humanity.

You don't need to get rid of religion; you have to outgrow the need for it. In other words, instead of hoping for the good life, you make the good life.

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion, should be done and may, in fact, in the end, be our greatest contribution to civilization.

Our religion doesn't demand perfection but instead a manageable strive to better ourselves.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

If we meet somebody who has never made a mistake, lets help them start a religion. Until then, were just going to meet other humans and help to make each other better.

Thermodynamics, correctly interpreted, does not just allow Darwinian evolution; it favors it.

The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it.

Evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion.

Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones.

We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions.

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.

The plain fact is: religion must die for mankind to live.

The old-time-religion and today's cutting-edge-religion have one thing in common - they're both religion. I want neither.