Alyson Stoner Quotes

The history of the world demonstrates that man becomes what we call civilized by increasing his wants.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

History can show you that it was one pile of bad stuff after another. It can also show you that there's been tremendous progress in knowledge, behaviour, laws, civilisation. It cannot show you that there was a meaning behind it.

When I contemplate the immense advances in sciences and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my life, I look forward with confidence to equal advances by the present generation, and have no doubt they will consequently be as much wiser than we have been as we than our fathers were, and they than the burners of witches

We presumably believe that most of the technological progress over the arc of humanity to date has been good. I don't see any argument to go back to 1600.

The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard.

I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.

Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.

The march of progress must continue.

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

… evolving standards of decency … mark the progress of a maturing society

The major challenge facing us is to elevate our national life to the highest level of civilization and prosperity.

The history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering, as the lower principles of humanity are gradually subjected to the higher.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations

Machines and their development provide the greatest opportunity in the whole history of mankind to improve the lot of the individual human being.

Civilization develops man, and if he is, according to his whole character and destiny, made for development, civilization is his truly natural state …

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance our profit and maximize our pleasure.

A certain degree of progress from the rudest state in which man is found,—a dweller in caves, or on trees, like an ape, a cannibal, an eater of pounded snails, worms, and offal,—a certain degree of progress from this extreme is called Civilization.

It is common to think of our own time as standing on the apex of human history.