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"I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking."
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"Change is a quintessential element of progress. Without change, progress is non-existent."

"Progress means advancement in the path of upliftment " in the path of enlightenment " in the path of humanitarian glory."

"Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress."

"A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress."

"True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis."

"After I received my blue belt, I soon recognized that the belts were simply an external representation of an inner experience, and that they mattered little compared to the person I was becoming."

"If the humanity does not poison the minds of the children with all sort of religious craps, the new generations of humanity will soon create a new world order where reason and logic will be the sole guide, the sole savior!"

"You run out of new ideas? Then you run out of your progression!"

"Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history."
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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

"When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility."

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

"The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them."

"The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things."

"Nobody can imagine how nothing could turn into something. Nobody can get an inch nearer to it by explaining how something could turn into something else. It is really far more logical to start by saying 'In the beginning God created heaven and earth' even ifyou only mean 'In the beginning some unthinkable power began some unthinkable process.' For God is by its nature aname of mystery, and nobody ever supposed that man could imagine how a world was created any more than he couldcreate one. But evolution really is mistaken for explanation. It has the fatal quality of leaving on many minds the impression that they do understand it and everything else."

"Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written."
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