Progress Hindrance Quotes

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

There are a lot of rules in cities that were designed to protect a particular incumbent, but not to move a city's constituents, a city's citizens, and the city itself, forward. And that's a problem.

You might occasionally feel that some people are standing in the way and slowing your progress, but in reality the biggest person standing in your way is you. Others can stop you temporarily -- you are the only one who can do it permanently.

The fact is the human race is not only slow about borrowing valuable ideas--it sometimes persists in not borrowing them at all.

We cannot have tomorrow’s miracles if we tie scientists’ hands with yesterday’s rules.

Government oppressed the body of the wage-slave, but Religion oppressed his mind, and poisoned the stream of progress at its source.

We are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all-that the wealth of individuals and of state is being diverted from the development and the progress of human expression and civilization.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants." These days we stand on each other's feet!

Just for being a religion at all you're as complicit as the rest in the retardation of the human intellectual progress.

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Laws and traditions that hold back women, hold back entire societies.

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

Science knows no boundaries, and efforts to create barriers – whether to keep new ideas within or to prevent new ones from entering from the outside – have universally proved harmful to progress.

Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.

Our society in general devalues the 'she' - qualities that are associated with the feminine that are found in all of us. As a result there's this imbalance and this distortion and it's hindering our progress.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

Nothing can be more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance on mathematical symbols; for the student is only too apt to take the easier course, and consider the formula not the fact as the physical reality.

The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.