Progress Quotes

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stak...

Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake t...

This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the sourc...

The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, ...

The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, ...

The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, ...

The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, ...

Human progress is achieved by taking exact measurements.

Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not...

We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of...

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the...

Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that t...

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a no...

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientifi...

No matter how powerful our political and religious leaders think they are, they are as dust before t...

We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.

I clenched my teeth and fists to stop them biting and scratching these clever men who want no care f...

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction...

Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

There was a great deal of progress being made, right under their noses, particularly in Africa, and ...

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

In running over the pages of our history for seven hundred years, we shall scarcely find a single gr...

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People wh...

Dogmatic theology is, by its very nature, unchangeable. The same can be said in regard to the spirit...

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it ...

The major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occ...

Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his...

The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to ...

The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every re...

The fundamental magic of flying is a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purpos...

People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, ...

A day will come when other Israelis will be launched into space in the service of science and progre...

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their governm...

For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through cre...

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of disca...

Oh! Science! Everything has been revised. For the body and for the soul,--the viaticum,—there are me...

The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a ...

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ru...

She watched the tunnels as they flowed past: bare walls of concrete, a net of pipes and wires, a web...

Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want--you go toward it. Sometimes you go...

Equality for women is progress for all.

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come...

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a ...

But if we can't summon the empathy to imagine what our dead would have asked of us, or the selflessn...

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negro...

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established...

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and sti...

Change is scientific, ‘progress’ is ethical. Change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of c...

So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of ...

The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by...

That is the idea -- that we should all be wicked if we did not hold to the Christian religion. It se...

[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things with...

Science is the best idea humans have ever had.

Progress is learning to control your world.

Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never fel...

There are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very ma...

There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. Yo...

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.

We all want progress, but if you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walki...

Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, th...

We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if yo...

Have you no idea of progress, of development?""I have seen them both in an egg," said Caspian. "We c...

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me...

Let's see if I got this right," she would say to herself. "I've taken an inert gas that's in the air...

I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and ...

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false v...

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false v...

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred...

it is only in social relations that we are human...to be human women must share in the totality of h...

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested...

The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t...

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of prop...

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit...

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or...

Presuming that there is such a thing as "progress" when it comes to music, and that music is "better...

My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I le...

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that Afric...

London was but a foretaste of this nomadic civilization which is altering human nature so profoundly...

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the t...

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!

The ugliest thing in America is greed, the lust for power and domination, the lunatic ideology of pe...

The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws op...

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach but it is unlikely to produc...

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shout...

And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs.

I don't know where anyone ever got the idea that technology, in and of itself, was a savior. Like al...