The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.

Progress is not about hating or destroying America, it is about loving and building the world, which can only come from healing our national dementia.

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

This is what progress does, you know. Each step into the future makes us ever so much grander and more demanding and thus ever so slightly less human.

What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid togethe

My life hasn't been perfect, yet I've never wasted my time envying anyone else. If something wasn't the best it could be - I made it better.

Today you are more inclined to put your ideas and visions into action than usual were you have the ability to express yourself and solve problems alone.

Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there is no such thing.

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

Let's be happy the way life takes shape, it is all decided and destined to be that way and we can't change anything unless we first change ourselves.

It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.

We are now forced to actively pursue our struggles. If we do not go out of our way to stretch our comfort zones and grow, no one nor nature will do it for us.