Progress Quotes

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If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. — David Rockefeller
As in the case of making a mound, if, before the very last basketful, I stop, then I shall have stopped. As in the case… — Confucius
In your training, do not be in a hurry, for it takes a minimum of ten years to master the basics and advance to the… — Morihei Ueshiba
The story of the entrepreneur... is the story of forward progress, of pursuing one's dreams and goals no matter how outlandish they seem to others.… — Sam Wyly
Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues. — George Will
When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress? — Marilyn French
It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces… — Albert Einstein
Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress. — James Randi
I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists; we have new compounds discovered, which scarcely differ from the known… — Michael Faraday
The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and his string of… — Thomas Jefferson
Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a… — Calvin Coolidge
Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that such… — Michael Faraday
Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself,… — Aldo Leopold
Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied. That is not… — Thomas Kuhn
While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the… — Andrew Carnegie
I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science,… — Max Born
Much is said about the progress of science in these centuries. I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there… — Henry David Thoreau
Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that the increase of… — Charles Babbage
Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee of… — Lord Kelvin
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to [money… — William Cobbett

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