#progress

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Those whom nature destined to make her disciples have no need of teachers. Bacon, Descartes, Newton — these tutors of the human race had no need of tutors themselves, and what guides could have led them to those places where their vast genius carried them? Ordinary teachers could only have limited their understanding by confining it to their own narrow capabilities. With the first obstacles, they learned to exert themselves and made the effort to traverse the immense space they moved through. If it is necessary to permit some men to devote themselves to the study of the sciences and the arts, that should be only for those who feel in themselves the power to walk alone in those men's footsteps and to move beyond them. It is the task of this small number of people to raise monuments to the glory of the human mind.


Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#descartes #genius #giants #newton #progress

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.


Kareem Abdul-Jabbar


#boy #feel #go #i #i feel

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.


Henry Adams


#darwin #evidence #evolution #grant #president

Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.


Eric Alterman


#argument #been #big #disappointment #few

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.


Felix Adler


#differentiation #diversity #every #freedom #human

Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.


Kate Adie


#being #coverage #illustration #live #make

When human beings stop progressing at an endeavor, they stop enjoying it and move on to something else. Not golfers. Masochists, all of them.


Jay Mohr


#else #endeavor #enjoying #golfers #human

Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.


Karen Morley


#made #most #pictures #progressive #some

In the span of three years, the Iraqi people participated in three elections, drafted a constitution, and elected a new government. While more work remains, this is remarkable progress.


Tim Murphy


#drafted #elected #elections #government #iraqi

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.


Robert Musil


#progress #stop #wonderful #would