Growth Quote by Nick Bostrom Download Open image “Human nature is a work in progress.” — Nick Bostrom ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Growth Human nature Humans Nature Nature of man Progress Work in progress
Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“Human "nature" is a nature continually in quest of itself, obliged at every moment to transcend what it was a moment before.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“It is the task of the "science of man" to arrive eventually at a correct description of what deserves to be called human nature.… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Human life is an extension of the principles of nature, and human civilization is a venture extrapolated out of human natures: man and his… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
“It now seems clear that a capacity to learn would be an integral feature of the core design of a system intended to attain… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
The challenge presented by the prospect of superintelligence, and how we might best respond is quite possibly the most important and most daunting challenge… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“We can think of wisdom as the ability to get the important things approximately right.” — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“The Google search engine is, arguably, the greatest AI system that has yet been built.” — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“If the distance between base and apex for you is eight kilometers, then to reach my dwellings would take a million light-year ascent. The… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“There is more scholarly work on the life-habits of the dung fly than on existential risks [to humanity].” — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“If one wished to speak provocatively, one could say that individuals created from such proofread genomes might be “more human” than anybody currently alive,… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
When we are headed the wrong way, the last thing we need is progress. — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“Lie detectors (should it prove feasible to make ones that are reliable and easy to use) could reduce the scope for deception in human… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“Rather, each brain develops its own idiosyncratic representations of higher-level content. Which particular neuronal assemblies are recruited to represent a particular concept depends on… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
My coach, Robert Allen, helped me a lot. He had more influence on my growth as a player than anyone else. — LaMarcus Aldridge Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture,… — Christopher Bond Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“I urge you: don't cut short these thought-trains of yours. Follow them through to their end. Your thoughts and your feelings. Follow them through… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you; to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions… — Oli Anderson Copy Share Image
If you learn something that changes you, you've made progress. If you learn something that changes others, you've helped change the world. — Lanie Lane Copy Share Image
“SILENT LIKE SLEEP You appear by my side, silent like sleep. Soft hair, a little wild. No fear, gentle like a calm river. I… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“There is no growth without risk. There is always something to be gained from any experience. It is up to us to interpret our… — Truth Devour Copy Share Image