Progress Quotes - Page 52

Free and just political institutions are absolutely essential to the progress and development both of the individual and of the race.

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully.

We'll get things done together. Democrats, Republicans, independents, we're going to make progress together when I'm president.

It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely, her elevation towards an equality with man uniformly accompanies progress.

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.

All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

Change is not always progress... A fever of newness has everywhere been confused with the spirit of progress.

There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.

I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more - as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin to perform a real service.

If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful.

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.

The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ago, when some people suspended their search for absolute truth and began instead to ask how things worked, modern science was born. Curiously, it was by abandoning the search for absolute truth that science began to make progress, opening the material universe to human exploration.

To my knowledge significant progress has never been born of competition. ... In science, being 'better' than others is of little practical value. Examples of how absurd the idea of scientific competition is are abundant.

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.

The likelihood of treatment (of any one patient) increases with the length of time since the origin of the disease. ...Those cases in which the neoplastic process progresses slowly...are more likely to be transferred to the 'treated' category than to remain in the 'untreated'.

Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize.

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

As we progress, various shades of meaning and deeper levels of understanding will complement this initial effort.

Life does not stand still. Where there is no progress, there is disintegration.

He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato.

You have as great an opportunity for satisfaction in the performance of your duty as I do in mine. The progress of this work will be determined by our joint efforts. Whatever your calling, it is as fraught with the same kind of opportunity to accomplish good as is mine. What is really important is that this is the work of the Master. Our work is to go about doing good as did He.