There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Isaac AsimovThere is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
George OrwellLife is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel JohnsonMediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people’s progress.
Jeff BezosA revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
Napoleon BonaparteConservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
Benjamin DisraeliNature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIn America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
Herbert HooverThe Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment… the European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
Noam ChomskyIn a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.
Wayne DyerScience may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.
Helen KellerAt the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
Booker T. WashingtonDo the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao TzuCompetition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
Franklin D. RooseveltThere are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
Stephen HawkingTo make headway, improve your head.
B. C. ForbesYou can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will RogersFor me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
Jeff BezosThe important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
George EliotAll progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinMeasures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
Mahatma GandhiNothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.
Lou HoltzOur scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King, Jr.And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.
Barack ObamaAfrica is on the rise.
Bill GatesToday we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.
Richard P. FeynmanA jug fills drop by drop.
BuddhaCompetition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
Herbert HooverFavor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
Franklin D. RooseveltIf you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
Barack ObamaWe are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerIf you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.
Brian EnoThe world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Elbert HubbardWe are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
Douglas MacArthurIn order for us to have a future that’s exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we’re a space-bearing civilization.
Elon MuskThe country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.
Clint EastwoodNew roads; new ruts.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIf I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Isaac NewtonI feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerActually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.
Thomas SowellWe’ve come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.
Ruth Bader GinsburgA lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.
Bill GatesFor time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. KennedyAmerica and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
Barack ObamaHumanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinWith Kansas, I had a four-year deal. The initial two months were real tough. I had to adjust a lot. Then, things started looking up.
Sunil ChhetriEach new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
Thomas SowellNever look back unless you are planning to go that way.
Henry David ThoreauThe lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.
Elon MuskIn the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
J. Robert OppenheimerBelieving in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
Franz KafkaThe march of the human mind is slow.
Edmund BurkeThe progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
Henry AdamsSurely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinWhen we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.
Joyce MeyerHe who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Friedrich NietzscheDespotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
James MadisonIt is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
Charles Dickens