If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
The UN is committed to the goal of ensuring that all nations share in economic, social, & scientific progress. It delivers humanitarian… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
Progress starts with envisioning a new (yet old) lifestyle with the home as central to all aspects of life-work and leisure, food… — Jules Dervaes Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I read a book by Frank Barnaby, this wonderful nuclear physicist. He said that media had a responsibility,… — Jeremy Gilley Copy Share Image
I feel this is very much our spiritual and political duty to be part of every peace table, it has often been… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I used to tell my graduate students at Stanford, 'Don't worry about what job you have to pick because your job picks… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Black women must help black men understand their full potential lies not in denying black women full access to their humanity and… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
You can't just stop technological progress. Even if one country stops researching artificial intelligence, some other countries will continue to do it.… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
In order to find out how to reveal our innermost Being, the sages explored the various sheaths of existence, starting from body… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Teachings and ideologies subversive to the fundamental principles of this great Republic, which are contrary to the Constitution of the United States,… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I think that moral philosophy is useful for framing questions, but terrible at answering them. I think moral psychology is booming right… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools… — Andrew Card Copy Share Image
The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
We utilize energy from carbon, not because we are bad people, but because it is the affordable foundation on which the profound… — John Christy Copy Share Image
“Progress is something with no pity, and no purpose. It just happens. It chews up all you ever knew, and spits out… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
When I go to business meetings, I'm still told way too often by some receptionist, 'The mail room is downstairs,' to believe… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
It would be interesting to inquire how many times essential advances in science have first been made possible by the fact that… — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share Image
There are still forces in America that want to divide us along racial lines, religious lines, sex, class. But we've come too… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Feminists are disappointed in each other a lot, a natural side effect of being involved in a movement, which naturally implies that… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
I'm not a big fan of free to play. And this is just me, but when I buy something, I don't like… — David Cage Copy Share Image
Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it - yesterday it was color, today… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [cell 54 of Cairo Central Prison] taught me that he who… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
How many men are like trees, already strong and full grown, which are transplanted into some gardens, to the astonishment of those… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
There are powers and forces that will seek to block you, to make your life more difficult. But if you are up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Generally, I don't like publicity on docs in progress, much less ones that are only in development; I've always tried to stay… — Steve James Copy Share Image
Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
I will sit at the table and compromise with anyone in the name of progress, but there are things I'm not willing… — Ayanna Pressley Copy Share Image
The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
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