1,930 Quotes About Progress

  • Author Werner Heisenberg
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    In a darkened world no longer illuminated by the light of this center [God], technical advances are scarcely more than despairing attempts to make Hell a more agreeable place to live in. This must be particularly emphasized against those who think that by spreading the civilization of science and technology even to the uttermost ends of the earth, they can furnish all the essential preconditions for a golden age. One cannot escape the Devil so easily as that.

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  • Author Bill Bryson
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    [Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use.

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