Argument Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

If there is such a thing as philosophical progress, then why - unlike scientific progress - is it so invisible? Philosophical progress is invisible…

— Rebecca Goldstein

Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

— Richard Rorty

It takes time for change to take place. But then when huge changes are taking place, they are extraordinary. And it requires a kind…

— Grace Lee Boggs

Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard.... let us not pretend to…

— E. O. Wilson

Change is often the agent of progress in ways we can't always readily see in the early days.

— Lloyd Blankfein

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Very much of what we call the progress of today consists in getting rid of false ideas, false conceptions of things, and in taking…

— William D. Hoard

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time…

— Barbara Amiel

Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way…

— Charles Kettering

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set…

— George Santayana

Things change all the time, so why do people make such a philosophical to-do that things are constantly in transition?

— Twyla Tharp