Progress Quotes

• The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre to which they all converge. We may even judge the degree of perfection to which a science has arrived by the facility with which it may be submitted to calculation.

  

  Adolphe Quetelet
  • Science
  • Progress
  • Mathematics

• The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.

  

  David Bowie
  • Technology
  • Progress
  • Replacements

• Despite some notable achievements, progress is off track across the continent.

  

  Asha-Rose Migiro
  • Progress
  • Achievements

• 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.

  

  Tim Scott
  • America
  • Government
  • Progress

• But even more: all at once the Jew also becomes liberal and begins to rave about the necessary progress of mankind.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Progress
  • Jew
  • Liberal

• Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is in all cases the same — less government.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Kind
  • Government
  • Slavery

• Although the United States has made tremendous progress cleaning up its water by removing billions of pounds of pollutants and doubling the number of waterways safe for fishing and swimming, a majority of Americans live within 10 miles of a polluted lake, river, stream or coastal area.

  

  Carol Browner
  • Water
  • Swimming
  • Environmental

• While our institutional mission and destiny are not in doubt, how we each participate and understand our individual responsibilities requires constant attention, effort, and vigilance. BYU will progress and prosper, but our individual success is not guaranteed without our own personal best efforts and worthily received blessings.

  

  Cecil O. Samuelson
  • Attention
  • Responsibility
  • Effort

• Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.

  

  George Will
  • Today
  • Progress
  • Liberty

• The United States has lost her unique position as a leader in the progress of civilization and has taken up her place simply as one of the grasping and selfish nations of the present day.

  

  Charles Eliot Norton
  • Taken
  • Unique
  • Leader

• The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work. Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale.

  

  Ernest Lawrence
  • Science
  • Past
  • Helping

• The primary ingredient for progress is optimism. The unwavering belief that something can be better drives the human race forward.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Humans
  • Belief
  • Race

• We always want to congratulate ourselves at having made more progress than we actually have.

  

  Nina Jacobson
  • Progress
  • Ourselves
  • Congratulate

• How can you help the human race progress?

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Progress
  • Humans

• The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that's when they are really making some progress.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Progress
  • Surprise
  • Analysis

• Whereas Iraq has consistently breached its cease-fire agreement between Iraq and the United States, entered into on March 3, 1991, by failing to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction program, and refusing to permit monitoring and verification by United Nations inspections; Whereas Iraq has developed weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological capabilities, and has made positive progress toward developing nuclear weapons capabilities

  

  Tom Harkin
  • Failing
  • March
  • Program

• When life does not go our way or we inadvertently make a mistake, it is so easy to make excuses, place blame on others, or argue that circumstances were against us. But we only progress in life to the extent that we take responsibility for our actions and attitudes, and put forth the initiative necessary to create our own circumstances.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility
  • Mistake

• The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.

  

  Joseph McCabe
  • Progress
  • Atheist
  • Factors

• I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.

  

  Ernest Lawrence
  • Environment
  • Progress
  • Scientific

• The tragedy is women of color have made more progress in basketball than they have in broadcasting.

  

  Cathy Hughes
  • Basketball
  • Tragedy
  • Broadcasting

• Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Science
  • Theory
  • Experiments

• We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Lies
  • Prosperity
  • Horizon

• Our vision is beclouded and the pathway of our progress is obstructed until we come to know that god can and does express as Good in every person and every situation.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Good
  • Vision
  • Progress

• Being satisfied with the status quo means you are not making progress.

  

  Katsuaki Watanabe
  • Progress
  • Satisfied
  • Status Quo

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