Quotes about Mankind Progress

Robert A. Heinlein

Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they were doing, as is shown by Neil Armstrong's first words in stepping down onto the soil of Luna: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

Sharon Shinn

If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.

Moshe Vardi

The question I want to put forward is, 'Does the technology we are developing ultimately benefit mankind?'

Abraham Lincoln

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Cargill Gilston Knott

Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.

Bertrand Russell

It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.

Neil Armstrong

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

In the original radio transmission it sounds like “one small step for man” (missing the ‘a’). Armstrong always maintained he said “one small step for a man” although he admitted he couldn’t hear it in the recording of the audio transmission. In a later analysis in September 2006 by Peter Ford of Control Bionics claimed to have found a “signature for the missing ‘a’ but the results have not been validated by other audio analysts.

Mankind Progress Quotes