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Progress Quotes by Stephen Jay Gould
- Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.
- World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully.
- Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.
- The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress.
- The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human…
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- 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
- 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
- Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up… — Jean Baudrillard
- Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life. — W. E. B. Du Bois
- 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