Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Progress
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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoitre the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.
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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
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As nations improve, so do their gods.
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I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.