Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Perhaps the spirit of adventure, be it mental or material adventure, is a factor so essential in human progress that no emphasis of it is undue.
Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.
When the new becomes commonplace, people become accustomed to it. That's a tribute to our sense of adventure.
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty. Neither do I believe that the spirit of adventure runs any risk of disappearing in our world.
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