Quotes About Progress

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.

Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.

It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.

He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray

The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.

Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.

Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.

A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry.

Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years

The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.

Dear Religion, This week I safely dropped a man from space while you shot a child in the head for wanting to go to school. Yours, Science.

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.

That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now the greatest impediment to our building a global civilization.

Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder.

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

The religion of the corporate world is novelty. What is new is always right.