Progress Quotes

Once you sink that first stake they'll never make you pull it up.

Flight is the only true sensation that men have achieved in modern history.

The fundamental magic of flying is a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed accessibility and convenience - and will not change as they change.

The century on which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.

To spur a willing horse.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

Progress might have been all right once but it's gone on too long.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?

A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat that is progress.

The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.

The major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

Always remember that the soundest way to progress in any organization is to help the man ahead of you to get promoted.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten but they may start a winning game.

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared either in scope or in rapidity.

Modern kitchen - where the pot calls the kettle chartreuse.

If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say and make fun of him.

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear-end collision and Man will never know that what hit him from behind was Man.

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.

Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time and all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.

That which comes into the world to disturb nothing deserves neither respect nor patience.

Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic and more time to drive to the office.

What we call progress is the exchange of one Nuisance for another Nuisance.

Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.

Progress requires setbacks the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.

I don't know where anyone ever got the idea that technology, in and of itself, was a savior. Like all human-created 'progress, ' computers are problematic, giving and taking away.

Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still so many more books to read. I'm a work in progress.

We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of discussion and to strive vigorously to promote the progress of science and the fine arts.

Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to study. The key is measurement, simple as that.

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.

I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself.

Indeed, we often mark our progress in science by improvements in imaging.

Certainly, it may bring to light such a deeper knowledge of the structure of matter as to constitute a veritable discontinuity in the progress of science.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

Science is the first expression of punk, because it doesn't advance without challenging authority. It doesn't make progress without tearing down what was there before and building upon the structure.

Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.

We will not build a society that reflects who we are and that has opportunities for equality or justice if we don't make progress for all participants.

As we celebrate the considerable progress we've made toward full equality in our military, we cannot forget about those who continue to suffer because of the discriminatory policies of our past.

The United States has made remarkable progress in reducing both teen pregnancy and racial and ethnic differences, but the reality is, too many American teens are still having babies.

Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

I've always had an enormous sense of independence. But I know that sometimes I can be too independent. It is important to be able to share your life - so that is a work in progress for me.

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

The greatest enemy of progress is the illusion of knowledge.

Surprise drives progress because innovation depends on the sort of knowledge no one can gather in a central place.

The fact is, when it comes to economic leadership, the Republicans have nothing to brag about. This isn't what the American people want. They want to see progress that works for them.

The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.