Chronology Quote by Barbara Amiel

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

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

— Lisa Randall

“Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there is no…

— Alberto Manguel

For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.

— Lewis Mumford

The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.

— H. A. L. Fisher

With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

History is the gradual instant

— Anne Michaels

Progress? There's no such thing as progress. There's only change. You dig a hole in the ground, you build up a city, and you…

— Charles Manson

Everyone's opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid…

— Frida Kahlo

...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and the freedom…

— B. H. Liddell Hart