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“Literary Hub » What Does “Progress” Mean, Anyway?”
“Not the psychological optimism of cheery moods, but the scientific optimism that is the main subject of this book.”
“Arguments over progress fill books and journals and podcasts and many other media, most of which rely themselves on some technological progress.”
“That will require us to let go of some familiar associations attached to the word and consider some perhaps unexpected ones.”
“Four critical prerequisites are necessary for the idea of progress to develop and become a driving force in society.”
“This is not to say that some notion of change did not exist before the late sixteenth century, but with very few exceptions, it seems that change was either not highly regarded or simply occurred so slowly as to go largely unnoticed.”
“I doubt the Greeks could have imagined calculus, the mathematics of change.”
“He is a Guggenheim fellow, a member of the advisory committee for the Alfred P.”
“It’s not that there was no progress, but that within a single generation, so little changed as to be imperceptible.”
“Several things are required for an idea such as progress to gain a footing, and it was not until the Scientific Revolution that all of those were met.”
“For that to happen, progress must be experienced within a generation, within a single lifetime.”
“Nonetheless, the Renaissance provided a kind of onramp to the Scientific Revolution and the much speedier pace of progress associated with it.”
“He has published over one hundred scientific papers in journals such as Nature, Science, Cell, and Neuron.”
“The linear calendar we live and work with now is effectively infinite; you just keep adding days.”
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