Quotes About Progress

Evolution is faith, a religion.

Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.

Science has taken away our religion.

Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire - has been ethically ambiguous.

somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.

My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.

The main point of enlightenment is man's release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.

I don't see why religion and science can't get along. What's wrong with counting our blessings with a computer?

God sometimes moves mountains one pebble at a time.

Man has been evolved and created the gods. Evolved more and decided to destroy all of them.

There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.

It's not like the Middle Ages, when you had the Church and the aristocracy keeping everything nice and stagnant.

One tech-related concern with religion is that it appears to be a positive feedback loop to the accelerating rich-poor gap, as the disenfranchised opt out of modernity.

Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.

The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.

Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her.

Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.

Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbor of humanity's great aspirations.