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Progress Quotes - Page 22

Adversity is the mother of progress.

Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

Progress is only possible by passing from a state of undifferentiated wholeness to differentiation of parts.

"General System Theory". Book by Ludwig von Bertalanffy. Chapter 3: "Some System Concepts in Elementary Mathematical Consideration", p. 69, 1968.

How do you know that the incessant progress of science will not compel scientists to consider that life has existed during eternity, and not matter?

Partially quoted in "Louis Pasteur: Free Lance of Science" by René Dubos, Da Capo Press, Inc., (p. 396), 1950.

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded

Jawaharlal Nehru, M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, Bal Ram Nanda (1972). “Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi N. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda;general Editor: S. Gopal”

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

H.L. Mencken (2013). “Second Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.470, Vintage