Progress Quotes

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Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press. — Horace Greeley
This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity. — Thomas Sowell
Scientific power is like inherited wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do… — Michael Crichton
The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression. — Lewis Mumford
The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness. — Norbert Wiener
Progress is the exploration of our own error. — Jacob Bronowski
A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress. — Anatole Broyard
It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely, her… — Herbert Spencer
We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress. — Barbra Streisand
From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take. — Thomas Gray
Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear as… — Ludwig von Mises
Old age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey, he must have discovered that the joys available in… — Sathya Sai Baba
For the progress of humanity, work alone is not adequate, but the work should be associated with love, compassion, right conduct, truthfulness and sympathy... — Sathya Sai Baba
Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't… — Robert Henri
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant. — Paul Cezanne
In order to make progress, there is only nature, and the eye is turned through contact with her. — Paul Cezanne
To achieve progress nature alone counts, and the eye is trained through contact with her. It becomes concentric by looking and working. — Paul Cezanne
Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles. — Paul Cezanne
As hope kindles hope, millions more will find it. By our efforts, we have lit a fire as well - a fire in the minds… — George W. Bush

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