Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded. Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas, –this is the very struggle of progress.
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.
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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.
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Sigmund Freud
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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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 still more the gallant French, are burdened with a spirit of narrow-mindedness. Anybody...
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Karl Marx
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
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Frank Zappa
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