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• ...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and… — B. H. Liddell Hart
• The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter… — John Polkinghorne
• Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative. — Richard Rorty
• The whole point of science is that most of it is uncertain. That's why science is exciting--because we don't know. Science is… — Freeman Dyson
• Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself! — Plato
• The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out. — Rollo May
• Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. — James Bryant Conant
• The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals. — Madame de Stael

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