“Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has.” — Judy Stone, Light Elements
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“We do not necessarily progress or improve as a human race alongside the leaps and bounds of science and knowledge.” — Derren Brown, Tricks of the Mind
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“Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” — George Bernard Shaw, Everybody’s Political What’s What?
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“In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.” — Iris Murdoch, Existentialists and Mystics
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“The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken. When you add that people are necessarily mistaken, that all people are exposed to situations in which they must act as fools, that every insight contains its own special kind of blindness, you complete the comic circle.” — Kenneth Burke, Attitudes Toward History
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“A worthy goal for a year is to learn enough about a subject so that you can’t believe how ignorant you were a year earlier.” — Kevin Kelly, 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice
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“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.” — George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists
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“The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they knew about the world, they suddenly had a very good reason to seek new knowledge, which opened up the scientific road to progress.” — Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus
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“Today you look back upon a world that has moved so far in one hundred years that nothing you see and feel, touch and taste, hope, believe, and love is as it was when your grandfathers learned from their grandfathers how to live in another day.” — William Allen White, “Duty in a Democracy,” commencement address at Northwestern (1937-06-12)
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“’Change’ is scientific, ‘progress’ is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.” — Bertrand Russell, Philosophy and Politics
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