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

-Lewis, (Harry) Sinclair
  Babbitt, ch.1, section 4. B VD is a trademark for a brand of US underwear.

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

-Ligne, CharlesJoseph, Prince de
  On the Congress of  Vienna (1814^15). Quoted in  Auguste de la Garde-Chambonas Souvenirs du Congre'  s de Vienne, 1814^1815 (1820), ch.1.

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

-Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
  Tales of a WaysideInn, pt.2,'The Student's Tale: The Cobbler of Hagenau'.

The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.

-1st Baron
  'Sir  James Mackintosh's History of the Revolution in England, in1688' in the Edinburgh Review,  Jul.

The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.

-1st Baron
  House of Commons, 22 May.

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

-Madan, Geoffrey
Collected in Geoffrey Madan's Notebooks (published1981).

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
 Principles of Political Economy, with Some Applications to Social Philosophy.

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
  On Liberty.

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
  The World of Sex.

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
On the depression of the1930s which inspired her to set up the Social Security system. Recalled on her death,14 May1965.

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
  The Logic of Scientific Discovery.

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
  Conjectures and Refutations (published1963), ch.10.

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
La Re¤  forme intellectuelle et morale.

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
  Principles of Political Economy andTaxation.

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
  A Free Man'sWorship and Other Essays.

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
  The Study of the History of Science.

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
  Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Reason'.

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

-Skelton, Robin
A Devious Dictionary.

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

-Soyinka,Wole pseudonym of Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka
  The Lion and theJewel (published1962),'Night'.

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
  CanYou Forgive Her?, ch.24.