Growth Quote by David von Drehle

Since the Renaissance, a concept called 'progress' has been baked into our society. Progress - founded on an accumulation of knowledge through experience (and…

— Seth Shostak

“Progress after 1970 continued but focused more narrowly on entertainment, communication, and information technology, in which areas progress did not arrive with a great…

— Robert J. Gordon

“The idea of innovation is the idea of progress stripped of the aspirations of the Enlightenment, scrubbed clean of the horrors of the twentieth…

— Jill Lepore

“Progress is first conceived in the mind, nature and safeguard your thought patterns.”

— Wayne Chirisa

“Knowledge emerges only through invention and reinvention, the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry beings pursue with the world and with others.”

— Paulo Freire

The greater part of progress is the desire for progress

— Seneca

We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.

— Carl Sagan

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to…

— Dinesh D'Souza

The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West…

— Jill Lepore

“Small, therefore, can we think the progress we have made, as long as our admiration for those who have done noble things is barren,…

— Plutarch

“My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all, better than…

— Ezra Pound

“The idea of progress is built on the notion that if we admit our ignorance and invest resources in research, things can improve. This…

— Yuval Noah Harari