Progress is the stride of God.
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.
Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
The pace of progress will accelerate so that even engineers and technical managers will find it necessary to recycle back through school after no more than ten years. In particular fast-moving technologies skills will become obsolete every five years or so.
The progress of the world is the history of men who would not permit defeat to speak the final word.
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.
The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
The walking of Man is falling forwards.
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