T Quotes
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“The progress of dynamic ideals will not be eternally blocked. Through general, moral and intellectual advancement... shall the latent aspiration of justice for the animal kingdom come out into the open, when the time is ripe.”
“The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.”
Source: Speeches on Questions of Public Policy
“The progress of history is to take the impossible and turn it into the possible.”
“The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.”
“The progress of humanity is stalled by human hubris. AI’s progress, by their intelligent shortsightedness.”
“The progress of known biologically harmful technologies is on course to damage this generation and to destroy future generations.”
“The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.”
Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
“The progress of mankind ebbs and flows like the tides, but we are further forward in decency and civilization than when Homo sapiens first emerged, despite the horrors at any one time - including the present.”
Source: Development as Rebellion: A Biography of Julius Nyerere
“The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.”
“The progress of manufactures and commerce insensibly collects a large multitude within the walls of a city: but these citizens are no longer soldiers; and the arts which adorn and improve the state of civil society, corrupt the habits of the military life.”
Source: The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon: Historical Works, Autobiographical Writings and Private Letters, Including The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.”
“The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy.”
Source: SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life
“The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.”
Source: A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French
“The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world are but examples of a few general relations, called laws. To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.”
Source: An Introduction to Mathematics
“The progress of science has always been the result of a close interplay between our concepts of the universe and our observations on nature. The former can only evolve out of the latter and yet the latter is also conditioned greatly by the former. Thus in our exploration of nature, the interplay between our concepts and our observations may sometimes lead to totally unexpected aspects among already familiar phenomena.”
“The progress of science in furnishing the government with means of espionage is not likely to stop with wire tapping. Ways may some day be developed by which the government, without removing papers from secret drawers, can reproduce them in court, and by which it will be enabled to expose to a jury the most intimate occurrences of the home. Advances in the psychic and related sciences may bring means of exploring unexpressed beliefs, thoughts and emotions. 'That places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer' was said by James Otis of much lesser intrusions than these.”
“The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike.”
Source: Science and Human Values
“The progress of science is tremendously disorderly, and the motivations that lead to this progress are tremendously varied, and the reasons why scientists go into science, the personal motivations, are tremendously varied. I have said ... that science is a haven for freaks, that people go into science because they are misfits, and that it is a sheltered place where they can spin their own yarn and have recognition, be tolerated and happy, and have approval for it.”
“The progress of science requires the growth of understanding in both directions, downward from the whole to the parts and upward from the parts to the whole. A reductionist philosophy, arbitrarily proclaiming that the growth of understanding must go only in one direction, makes no scientific sense. Indeed, dogmatic philosophical beliefs of any kind have no place in science.”
Source: Nature's imagination: the frontiers of scientific vision
“The progress of science still depends on "a few people of vision".”
Source: Confessions of a Technophile
“The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which seemed to possess eternal life.”
“The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.”
“The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.”
Source: History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations
“The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe.”
“The progress of the human race is effected by the operation of two forces which correspond in most respects to what in physics are often called, for want of better terms, the centripetal and centrifugal forces. These are the forces of convergence and divergence, the one tending to concentration of powers and properties, and the other to their separateness or the independence of parts. Socialism and Individualism are to appearance conflicting, though in reality complemental, in their relations to the societary movement.”
“The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.”
“The progress of the Way seems retreating.”
“The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.”
“The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“The progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“The progress of the world will call for the best that all of us have to give.”
“The progress of this country relies on hard-working discipline citizens.”
“The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible.”
“The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between the idea and the observer…to achieve this clarity is, inevitably, to be understood.”
Source: Mark Rothko, 1903-1970: a retrospective
“The progression of physical science is much more connected with your prosperity than is usually imagined. You owe to experimental philosophy some of the most important and peculiar of your advantages. It is not by foreign conquests chiefly that you are become great, but by a conquest of nature in your own country.”
Source: The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy (etc.)
“The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.”
“The progressive agenda is actually legitimated by the incomprehension and anger it elicits: If the people do not resent and resist what is being done on their behalf, what is being done is not properly ambitious. If it is comprehensible to its intended beneficiaries, it is the work of insufficiently advanced thinkers.”
“The progressive and liberal mindset believes that to every problem there is a Washington, D.C., solution.”
“The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple - talk about class and hope no one notices.”
“The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record”
“The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.”
“The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.”
Source: My Inventions and Other Writings
“The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to human needs. This is the difficult task of the inventor who is often misunderstood and unrewarded. But he finds ample compensation in the pleasing exercises of his powers and in the knowledge of being one of that exceptionally privileged class without whom the race would have long ago perished in the bitter struggle against pitiless elements. . . .”
Source: My Inventions
“The progressive growth of the finite consciousness of man towards this Self, towards the universal , the eternal, the infinite, in a word his growth into spiritual consciousness by the development of his ordinary ignorant natural being into an illumined divine nature, this is for Indian thinking the significance of life and the aim of human existance.”
“The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation of that labour. But both these facts manifest themselves in extremely diverse processes in different branches of the national economy.”
“The progressive increase of awareness about the purpose of life, brought by the awakening of various levels of intelligences, measures the degree of enlightenment.”
“The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe into societal collapse. There is no precedent in human history for economic growth on declining human capital - and that's before anyone invented unsustainable welfare systems.”
Source: America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It
“The Progressive Left cannot survive an honest accounting of Hitler's domestic policies, any more than Medusa can gaze upon her reflection in a mirror.”
“The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist”
“The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity.”