Growth Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.

— Ernst Mayr

Very much of what we call the progress of today consists in getting rid of false ideas, false conceptions of things, and in taking…

— William D. Hoard

There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time…

— Barbara Amiel

New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the…

— Joan Robinson

What we call progress consists in coordinating ideas with realities.

— Alfred Korzybski

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

— Lisa Randall

Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.

— William Pollard

Philosophical progress changes what we take to be "intuitively" obvious, and this change covers up the tracks of the laborious arguments that preceded the…

— Rebecca Goldstein

Simple ideas are easier to understand. Ideas that are easier to understand are repeated. Ideas that are repeated change the world.

— Simon Sinek

“The single greatest threat to human progress isn’t a lack of original ideas; it’s our obsession with familiarity — with status quo thinking.”

— Jen Fraser

The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the…

— Freeman Dyson

“Progress can today be defined as man's ability to complicate simplicity.”

— Thor Heyerdahl