progress Quotes

“we are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.”

― Richard Feynman, The Character of Physical Law

“Pangloss most cruelly deceived me when he said that everything in the world is for the best.”

― Voltaire, Candide

topic:world progress

“Revolutionists should always be hurried; progress has no time to lose.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this fact is recognized,—that the human race has been treated harshly, but that it has progressed.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic:justice law progress

“If we walk far enough . . . I am sure we shall sometime come to some place.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“What makes a leftist a leftist is not this or that theory but his ability to integrate any theory into the kitsch called the Grand March.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

topic:politics progress

“chance encounters are what keep us going.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Two centuries ago England was devastated by the plague; cleanliness and common sense were enough to free us from its ravages. One century since, small-pox was almost as great a scourge; science, though working empirically, and almost in the dark,...”

― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

topic:science progress

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