"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
"No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere."
- Sigmund Freud
"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done."
- Alan Turing
"...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and ..."
- Karl Marx
"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
- Frank Zappa
"An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at best very occasional) knowledge , purify itself of errors, and progress in general en..."
- Immanuel Kant
"Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future."
- Stefan Molyneux
"The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour."
- Ray Bradbury
"Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own making. When called upon to act independently, we cry for patterns, system..."
- Max Horkheimer
"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."
- George Orwell