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title: "10 Future progress Quotes by 10 authors"
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> [Trust is precious and easily wasted, and guessing is a lousy foundation for future progress.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-godin/trust-is-precious-and-easily-wasted-and-guessing-is-a-lousy/)

[Seth Godin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-godin/)

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> [The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bernard-shaw/the-reasonable-man-adapts-himself-to-the-world-the-unreasonable-one-4/)

[George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-bernard-shaw/)

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> [I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/i-am-quite-sure-that-if-we-open-a-quarrel-between-the-past-and-the/)

[Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/)

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> [The level of our educational development is high and serves as a strong basis for our future progress.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hassanal-bolkiah/the-level-of-our-educational-development-is-high-and-serves-as-a/)

[Hassanal Bolkiah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hassanal-bolkiah/)

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> [You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-babbage/you-will-be-able-to-appreciate-the-influence-of-such-an-engine-on-the/)

[Charles Babbage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-babbage/)

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> [With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claude-bernard/with-the-aid-of-these-active-experimental-sciences-man-becomes-an/)

[Claude Bernard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claude-bernard/)

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> [The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-aurobindo/the-most-vital-issue-of-the-age-is-whether-the-future-progress-of/)

[Sri Aurobindo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sri-aurobindo/)

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> [If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand. Again and again, when I have been at a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-dirac/if-you-are-receptive-and-humble-mathematics-will-lead-you-by-the-hand/)

[Paul Dirac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-dirac/)

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> [Today, we are closer to fulfilling America's promise of economic and social justice because we stand on the shoulders of giants like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/today-we-are-closer-to-fulfilling-america-s-promise-of-economic-and/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36f/barack-obama-17_america_today-we-are-closer-to-fulfilling-americ_1718825.jpg)

> [ While the law \[of competition\] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-carnegie/while-the-law-of-competition-may-be-sometimes-hard-for-the-individual/)

[Andrew Carnegie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-carnegie/)

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