Progress Quotes

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The ultimate success of this government and the stability of its institutions, its progress in all that can make a nation honored, depend upon its… — Jon Lord
What is so bad about big government? My indictment of big government is that it is bad because it attacks liberty, prosperity, progress, harmony, and… — George Leef
Your progress depends upon your degree of sustained intensity in a given direction. — Roger McDonald
Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the usefull and ornamental arts, and worthy the attention of the… — Joseph Black
The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident… — Ernest Lawrence
In my estimation it was obvious that Jansky had made a fundamental and very important discovery. Furthermore, he had exploited it to the limit of… — Grote Reber
The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a cell will solve… — Andre Michel Lwoff
Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it… — Grove Karl Gilbert
We do not live in a time when knowledge can be extended along a pathway smooth and free from obstacles, as at the time of… — Heinrich Burkhardt
The present rate of progress [in X-ray crystallography] is determined, not so much by the lack of problems to investigate or the limited power of… — William Lawrence Bragg
The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter would have proved… — John Polkinghorne
[To the cultures of Asia and the continent of Africa] it is the Western impact which has stirred up the winds of change and set… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
It surely can be no offence to state, that the progress of science has led to new views, and that the consequences that can be… — Henry De la Beche
No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame. Facts are constituted… — Paul Feyerabend
[The infinitely small] neither have nor can have theory; it is a dangerous instrument in the hands of beginners [ ... ] anticipating, for my… — Francois-Joseph Servois
It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction. — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the scientific… — Norman Lockyer
We might expect intelligent life and technological communities to have emerged in the universe billions of years ago. Given that human society is only a… — Paul Davies
I am local, rural, communal. And I find that the whole world is a community. We have made progress in asserting our local community rights… — Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to… — Albert Einstein

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