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Progress Quotes - Page 77

It's something that's very often said that philosophy, as opposed to science, never makes any progress.

"What Do We Have To Teach Plato?". "Here And Now" with Jeremy Hobson, news.stlpublicradio.org. April 22, 2014.

An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traits”, p.4, Harvard University Press

The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.274, Harvard University Press

But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1335, Delphi Classics

A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.

Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.137, Northwestern University Press

To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind.

Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.119, Oxford University Press, USA