The simple belief in automatic material progress by means of scientific discovery is a tragic myth of our age.

Sometimes a significant truth is found in a simple sentence.

Man's "progress" is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning

The guide does not walk your path.

The pursuit of the good and evil are now linked in astronomy as in almost all science. . . . The fate of human civilization will depend on whether the rockets of the future carry the astronomer's telescope or a hydrogen bomb.

The belief in progress, not as an ideal but as an indisputable fact, not as a task for humanity but as a law of Nature, has been the working faith of the West for about a hundred and fifty years.