Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and...
Progress across the time axis is passive. Progress up the results axis is passion.
It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.
Dolores Umbridge: Progress for the sake of progress must be discouraged.
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
From the study of the development of human intelligence, in all directions, and through all times, the discovery arises of a great fundamental law, to which it is necessarily subject, and which has a solid foundation of proof, both in the facts of ou...
We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.
Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.
I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.
I'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a 'time out' from technological progress as we know it.
Never should the power of an individual be allowed to impede the progress of the rest of the nation; never should the power of a nation be allowed to impede the progress of mankind.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
As a result of its investigation, the NIH said that to qualify for funding, all proposals for research on human subjects had to be approved by review boards—independent bodies made up of professionals and laypeople of diverse races, classes, and ba...
I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that mankind have gone on adding trait after trait till they reached the most perfect conception of wickedn...
The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing w...
Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human nature and in the omnipotence of science. It is a defiant and blasphemous faith, not unlike that held by the men who set out to build a "city and a to...
No one escapes some degree of chaos for it is so ever prevalent; it is the human experience. This realization does not mean we can’t improve. It does mean we can accept our state of chaos, lighten up on ourselves, have fun, and work on improving…...
How shall man measure Progress there where the dark-faced Josie lies? How many heartfuls of sorrow s hall balance a bushel of wheat? How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real! And all this life and love and strife and failure,...
