All Quotes By Tag: Progress
“An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at best very occasional) knowledge , purify itself of errors, and progress in general enlightenment. That would be a crime against human nature, the proper destination of which lies precisely in this progress and the descendants would be fully justified in rejecting those decrees as having been made in an unwarranted and malicious manner.The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself.”
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“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
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“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
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“No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.”
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“Push your boundaries beyond the ordinary; be that “extra” in “extraordinary.”
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
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