#progress

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#every #evidence #facts #false #falseness

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#being #equal #equals #every #except

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. ↗

— Voltaire

#man #ocean #progress #rapid #rivers

I certainly don't advocate terrorism as a way of progressing and understanding people, nor do I believe labeling everything as a terrorist act is helpful either. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#advocate #believe #certainly #either #everything

For those that think men make progress collectively, I warn you, history teaches: You couldn’t be more wrong. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#men

Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man? ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#progress #science #art

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. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#comfort #materialism #progress #science #science

[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#progress #science #technology #science

You were born to journey in the direction of your purpose. Anything that halts your progress is contrary to your design. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#design #direction #happiness #journey #progress

Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It's some of the best stuff around. ↗

— Ryan Phillippe

#around #best #common #def #hiphop