1,930 Quotes About Progress

Be Practical." That's probably the most stupid piece of advice I've ever received in my life.

Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human nature and in the omnipotence of science. It is a defiant and blasphemous faith, not unlike that held by the men who set out to build a "city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven" and who believed that "nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

There’s little growth and progression without learning and reflection

The progress of known biologically harmful technologies is on course to damage this generation and to destroy future generations.

Success is simply the wisdom born out of so called failures

From the wheel to the steel - from papyrus to kindle - from churchbell to doorbell - from holy books to comic books - from monotheism to secularism - from fundamentalism to humanism - from steam engine to jet engine - from cave painting to apple pencil - from antibiotics to antipsychotics - from embroidery to surgery - from moving pics to netflix - every single feat that we can think of, good or bad, is born of the neurons. In short, neurons can make the world or break the world.

We may well be the most technologically advanced we’ve ever been, but we’re still only one step out of the cave.

Seek excellence not perfection, that alone is a perfect choice.

Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.