progress

No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

—Perkins, Frances

Le congre'  s ne marche pas, il danse. The Congress makes no progress; it dances.

—Ligne, CharlesJoseph, Prince de

Mr Palliser was one of those politicians in possessing whom England has perhaps more reason to be proud than of any other of her resources, and who, as a body, give to her that exquisite combination of conservatism and progress which is her present strength and best security for the future.

—Trollope, Anthony

Conservatism 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.

—Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

Conservative ideal of freedom and progress: everyone to have an unfettered opportunity of remaining exactly where they are.

—Madan, Geoffrey

In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.

—Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl

Given that the deepest problem with the US economy is slow productivity growth, it is difficult to argue for tax increasesthat might reduceincentives† Thereseemsto Kuhn be a public consensus that Donald Trump is the price of progress.

—Krugman, Paul R

I am for encouraging the progress of science in all its branches; and notfor†awing thehumanmind bystories of raw-head and bloody bones to a distrust of its own vision and to repose implicitly on that of others.

—Jefferson,Thomas

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate asthefingers,yetoneasthehand inall things essentialto mutual progress.

—Washington, BookerTaliaferro

While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for theindividual, it isbestfor therace, becauseit insures thesurvival ofthefittest ineverydepartment. Weaccept and welcome, therefore, as conditions towhichwe must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential to the future progress of the race.

—Carnegie, Andrew

I was always well mounted. I am fond of a horse, and always piqued myself on having the fastest trotter in the Province. I have made no great progress in the world. I feel doubly, therefore, the pleasure of not being surpassed on the road.

—Hales, Stephen

The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.

—1st Baron

The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.

—1st Baron

One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to a greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long.

—Du Bois,W(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt)

England is a great and powerful nation, foremost in human progress, enemy to despotism, the only safe refuge for the exile, friend of the oppressed. If ever England should be so circumstanced as to require the help of anyally, cursed be the Italian who would not step forward with me in her defence.

—Garibaldi, Giuseppe

False facts are highly injuriousto the progress of science, for they often long endure; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, as every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

—Darwin, Charles Robert

The Europeans have scarcely visited any coast, but to gratify avarice, and extend corruption; to arrogate dominion without right, and practice cruelty without incentive† But there isreason to hope†that the light of the gospel will at last illuminate the sands of Africa, and the deserts of America, though its progress cannot but be slow when it is so much obstructed by the lives of Christians.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

A stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There could be as much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress.

—Mill,John Stuart

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessaryelements of a healthystate of political life.

—Mill,John Stuart

I should have been glad to have humanity forget all about strayalcoholic drinks†but in the present stage of human progress, this vehicle of joy could not be generally suppressed by federal law.

—Hoover, Herbert Clark

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying toadapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

—Shaw, George Bernard

DefinitionöScience is systematized positive knowledge, what has been taken as such in different ages and in different places. TheoremöThe acquisition and systematization of positive knowledge are the only human activities which are truly cumulative and progressive.CorollaryöThe history of science is the only history which can illustrate the progress of mankind. In fact, progress has no definite and unquestionable meaning in other fields than the field of science.

—Sarton, George A

pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease.

—cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings

In order that a new theory should constitute a discovery or step forward it should conflict with its predecessor †it should contradict its predecessor; it should overthrow it. In this sense, progress in scienceöor at least striking progressöis always revolutionary.

—Popper, Sir Karl Raimund

Morally, spiritually, we are fettered. What have we achieved in mowing down mountain ranges, harnessing the energy of mighty rivers, or moving whole populations about like chess pieces, if we ourselves remain the same restless, miserable, frustrated creatures we were before. To call such activity progress is utter delusion.

—Miller, Henry Valentine

Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beasts'; God is, they are, Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

—Browning, Robert

Furnished as all Europe is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experimentation, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.

—Frank, Anne

In every case, agricultural as well as manufacturing profits are lowered bya rise in the price of raw produce, if it be accompanied bya rise of wages_ The natural tendency of profits istofall; for inthe progress of society and wealth, the additional quantity of food required is obtained by the sacrifice of more and more labour.

—Ricardo, David

Our ingress into the world Was naked and bare; Our progress through the world Is trouble and care.

—Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

We the Peoples of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, whichtwice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to 873 mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignityand worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, and for these ends, to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one anotherasgood neighbours, and tounite our strengthto maintain international peace and security, and to ensure by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples, have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims.

—United Nations Charter

It is the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you are mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause, and then you can't find anyone who disagrees.

—Benn,Tony (Anthony Neil Wedgwood)

In order to imbue civilization with sound principles and enliven it with the spirit of the gospel, it is not enough to be illumined with the gift of faith and enkindled with the desire of forwarding a good cause. For this end it is necessary to take an active part in the various organizationsand influencethemfromwithin. And since our present age is one of outstanding scientific and technical progress and excellence, one will not be able to enter these organizations and work effectively from within unless he is scientifically competent, technically capableand skilled in the practice of his own profession.

—PopeJohn XXIII originally Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Manö There are only four things certain since Social Progress began:ö That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire.

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

I sing the progress of a deathless soul.

—Donne,John

But the skin of progress Masks, unknown, the spotted wolf of sameness.

—Soyinka,Wole pseudonym of Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka

The social progress, order, security and peace of each countryare necessarily connected with the social progress, order, securityand peace of all other countries.

—PopeJohn XXIII originally Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli

Thehistoryof science, likethehistoryof all humanideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is one of the very few human activitiesöperhaps the only oneöin which errors are systematically criticized and fairly often, in time, corrected. This is why we can say that, in science, we often learn from our mistakes, and why we can speak clearly and sensibly about making progress there.

—Popper, Sir Karl Raimund

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

He never put on BVDs without thanking the God of Progress that he didn't wear tight, long, old-fashioned undergarments.

—Lewis, (Harry) Sinclair

Behold theturtle, itonlymakesprogresswhen it sticksits neckout.

—Anonymous

War is a condition of progress; the whip-cut that prevents a country from going to sleep and forces satisfied mediocrity to shake off its apathy.

—Renan, (Joseph) Ernest

   When one hears of progress one should ask for whom. 795

—Skelton, Robin