“To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot.” HumansRealReasonLightTruthAbleReligionLosesNaturalDarkClearProgressFeetMankindEffectsEventsBehaviorHarmToleranceDoctrineRepresentativesRefugeInterfereScience And ReligionDomainUnworthyPhilosophy Of ReligionHuman ProgressRegularityScience ReligionScientific KnowledgeGod And Science Author:Albert Einstein
“By complex ways, by looking deep into the dark well of the human soul, full of filth, somewhere at the very bottom of it Chekhov at last found his faith. And this faith turned out to be faith in man, in the power of human progress. And man became his god.” MenWayInspirationalHumansWellsArtSoulLastsFoundLiteratureDarkProgressComplexesBottomHuman SoulFilthHuman ProgressChekhov Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in the years before the First World War in and around Boston. He had noticed that people liked going into the dark to see the light... the appeal of the movies is beyond the sensible, rational or the hard-working. Going into the dark, afte centuries of progress in which mankind has staggered toward artificial light, smacks of delicious perversity.” PeopleWorldYearsFirstsWarHardLightFilmDarkProgressMankindCenturyHard WorkHollywoodClaimsRationalAppealsWar Of The WorldsSensibleArtificialWorld War IDeliciousEquationsBostonSmackFirst World WarPerversityArcadesMayerNickelodeonArtificial Light Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“There were some ages in Western history that have occasionally been called Dark. They were dark, it is said, because in them learning declined, and progress paused, and men labored under the pall of belief. A cause-effect relationship is frequently felt to exist between the pause and the belief.” MenSaidAgeBeliefFeltCausesDarkProgressEffectsWesternPauses Author:Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk
“The bright side of life's unpredictability is that it's not over until it's over. As dark as the passages and confusing as the cul-de-sacs that you find yourself in are, progress is nevertheless being made. Something is unfolding. You are becoming.” LifeMadeSidesDarkProgressBecomingFinding YourselfPassagesNeverthelessConfusingUnfoldingUnpredictabilityBright Side Author:Marion Winik
“Unless some effective supranational government can be set up and brought quickly into action, the prospects of peace and human progress are dark and doubtful.” HumansGovernmentActionDarkProgressDoubtfulProspectsHuman Progress Author:Winston Churchill