1,930 Quotes About Progress

Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without error, but that which we may act upon without fear; and you cannot fail to see that scientific thought is not an accompaniment or condition of human progress, but human progress itself.

Once you cross the threshold, you will never be the same. That is a fact.

Human progress isn't measured by industry, it's measured by the value you put on a life.

As a human rights activist it is concerning to me that those committing atrocities against vulnerable people view these atrocities as 'progress', and assert with pride and conviction that they are 'Christians' and that they are doing 'God's will'.

Without wonder, there's no progress. Nothing gets done, nobody goes anywhere. If you don't exercise your capacity for wonder... well, use it or lose it. A civilization without wonder is a civilization that's starting to atrophy and die.

[To] mechanical progress there is apparently no end: for as in the past so in the future, each step in any direction will remove limits and bring in past barriers which have till then blocked the way in other directions; and so what for the time may appear to be a visible or practical limit will turn out to be but a bend in the road.(Opening address to the Mechanical Science Section, Meeting of the British Association, Manchester.)

In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand.

Muslims are backward in this world not because of their wrong actions but because of their wrong selections

Wipe out with your actions, all that is disgraceful, discriminatory and barbarian in the human universe and be the lord that finds the fulfillment of the self in becoming the creator of an ever-evolving and ever-progressing human universe lavished with the fundamental elements of humaneness and reasoning.