Progress Quotes

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The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization. — Samuel Gompers
If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble, while 19Â½ per… — Hermann Bondi
Experience hobbles progress and leads to abandonment of difficult problems; it encourages the initiated to walk on the shady side of the street in the… — William James Mayo
With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot… — Claude Bernard
This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression. — Herbert Marcuse
I don't like explosions. I don't mind progress. But digital photography has made every man, woman, child and chimpanzee a photographer of sorts and consequently… — Elliott Erwitt
The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress. — Stephen Jay Gould
Individuals inherit a particular space within an interlocking set of social relationships; lacking that space, they are nobody, or at best a stranger or an… — Alasdair MacIntyre
Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen. — Bob Dylan
How can those who are invested with the power of government be prevented from the abuse of those powers as the means of aggrandizing themselves?… — John C. Calhoun
The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out. — Rollo May
State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need… — Ernie Fletcher
The progress in Iraq has not been without cost. — Virgil Goode
Van Halen is a work in progress. — Alex Van Halen
One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden… — Phil Hartman
I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way… — Jim Jarmusch
Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I mean, comedy's hard. If you go back and look at the first season of 'Seinfeld,' it's a work in progress and that's what happens.… — Zachary Knighton
I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated. — John Dramani Mahama
[T]he progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea. — Edgar Saltus

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