All progress means war with Society.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.

The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

It's 2003. Why can't I teleport?

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

Belief in progress is the Prozac of the thinking classes.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?