Cornerstones Quote by Julian Huxley

Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort…

— Anonymous

“Our practical faith in progress has ramified and hardened into an ideology -- a secular religion which, like the religions that progress has challenged,…

— Ronald Wright

Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.

— Booker T. Washington

Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard… let us not pretend to…

— E. O. Wilson

Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder.

— Matt Chandler

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

— John Burroughs

Human progress planned as alternatives (to God's plan) introduce in justice, evil and violence rising against the divine plan of justice and salvation. And…

— Pope John Paul II

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

Very much of what we call the progress of today consists in getting rid of false ideas, false conceptions of things, and in taking…

— William D. Hoard

Progress, the religion of those who have none.

— Lord Acton

To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy, the question whether Progress is inevitable or even real is not a matter of primary importance. For…

— Aldous Huxley

“Too often, the notion of progress is used as a code word for perfection, the chain of being in a different guise. The term…

— Steve Jones