Quotes about Progress

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation. All we can do, and that human wisdom can do, is to provide that the change shall proceed by insensible degrees. This has all the benefits which may be in change, without any of the inconveniences of mutation.

Untried forms of government may, to unstable minds, recommend themselves even by their novelty.

I wished to warn the people against the greatest of all evils,—a blind and furious spirit of innovation, under the name of reform.

An achievement is bondage.It obliges one to a higher achievement.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

I don't know the weapons that will be used in the Third World War, but in the Forth men will use wood and stones

There is not the slightest indication that energy will ever be obtainable from the atom.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

It is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.