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“We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could be done it should be done was born in the nineteenth century. And along with it, there developed a profound belief in all the principles through which invention succeeds: objectivity, efficiency, expertise, standardization, measurement, and progress. It also came to be believed that the engine of technological progress worked most efficiently when people are conceived of not as children of God or even as citizens but as consumers-that is to say, as markets.”

Source: Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

“THERE is scarcely any inquiry more curious, or, from its importance, more worthy of attention, than that which traces the causes which practically check the progress of wealth in different countries, and stop it, or make it proceed very slowly, while the power of production remains comparatively undiminished, or at least would furnish the means of a great and abundant increase of produce and population.”

Mean Different Country Causes Wealth Attention Progress Produce Importance Increase Remains Population Productions Worthy Checks Curious Inquiry Different Countries

Author:Thomas Malthus

“Although we are aware that North Korea is attaching importance to the liquidation of the past, that is difficult unless there is progress over the abduction issue.”

Past Difficult Issues Progress Importance Korea North Korea Abduction

Author:Koichi Haraguchi

“A society that does not give importance to education cannot progress. Let there be any Government, it must have a vision to make India shine in the field of education.”

Giving Doe Government Education Vision Progress Fields India Importance Shining

Author:Narendra Modi

“If science is to progress, what we need is the ability to experiment, honesty in reporting results—the results must be reported without somebody saying what they would like the results to have been—and finally—an important thing—the intelligence to interpret the results.”

Ifs Needs Has Beens Important Ability Results Progress Honesty Importance Important Things Intelligence Experiments Interpretation

Book:The Quotable Feynman

Source: The Quotable Feynman

“As an element in human progress, the right of private property, in importance, has taken first and almost only place in the current systems of law and of political economy. While admitting its great importance, we cannot conceal the fact that the writers on those subjects have wholly failed to distinguish between its use and its abuse, or to recognize its rational and equitable limits.”

“When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty - some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain.”

“For material progress and physical well being, peace of mind is of utmost importance.”

Mind Wells Progress Materials Importance Well Being Peace Of Mind

Author:Dalai Lama

“To watch the progress of such endeavors is the office of a free press. To give us early alarm and put us on our guard against encroachments of power. This then is a right of utmost importance, one for which, instead of yielding it up, we ought rather to spill our blood.”

Giving Watches Progress Blood Ought Office Importance Presses Endeavor Alarms Spills Free Press Encroachment

Book:The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton: Documents and Commentary

Source: The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton: Documents and Commentary

“Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.”

Progress Importance

Book:Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“The biggest lesson has been the importance of constantly repeating the mission. It means bringing the team together every week to talk about all of our projects, progress, and vision.”

Mean Has Beens Together Vision Progress Week Team Lessons Projects Importance Missions

Author:David Karp

“We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt.”

Order Found Rooms Doubt Progress Ignorance Importance Paramount Uncertainty And Doubt

Book:What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Source: What Do You Care What Other People Think?