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Progress Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged…
- Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
- The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world are but examples…
- There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.
- In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward…
- Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
- Error is the price we pay for progress.
- The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
- The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.
More Progress Quotes
- It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the… — Teresa of Avila
- Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage. — Oscar Wilde
- All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure" things that… — Mark Twain
- The [peppered-moth] experiments show the effects of predation on the survival of the dark and of the normal forms of the Peppered… — L. Harrison Matthews
- Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. Individuals, and not masses, form the culture of the race. — L. Ron Hubbard
- A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause… — Irving Babbitt
- The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work… — Eli Broad
- My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton