Progress Quotes

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People don't die from the old diseases any more. They die from new ones, but that's Progress, isn't it? Isn't it? — Harlan Ellison
Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important. — George Zebrowski
Progress is achieved by exchanging our theories for new ones which go further than the old, until we find one based on a larger number… — Claude Bernard
I think progress began to retrogress when Wilbur and Orville started tinkering around in Dayton and at Kitty Hawk, because I believe that two Wrights… — Ogden Nash
That a country, [England], eminently distinguished for its mechanical and manufacturing ingenuity, should be indifferent to the progress of inquiries which form the highest departments… — Charles Babbage
That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day of… — Mark Twain
The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The city of Hiroshima stands as more than a monument to massive death and destruction. It stands as a living testament to the necessity for… — Edward Kennedy
Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest… — Elbert Hubbard
We are like dwarfs [the moderns] sitting on the shoulders of giants [the ancients]. Our glance can thus take in more things and reach farther… — Bernard of Chartres
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if… — Abraham Flexner
Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific… — Friedrich Nietzsche
You can hardly convince a man of error in a life-time, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow.… — Henry David Thoreau
You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even exponential curve? It… — Frederik Pohl
In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery. — Mahatma Gandhi
We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of mankind… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Progress is often just a good idea away. — John C. Maxwell
In vast stretches of the earth, men awoke today in hunger. They will spend the day in unceasing toil. And as the sun goes down… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Procrastination is a deadly weapon of human progress. — Marvin J. Ashton
If you are not progressing along the true way, a slight twist in the mind can become a major twist. This must be pondered well. — Miyamoto Musashi

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