Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

All problems are finally scientific problems.

George Bernard Shaw

All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

George Bernard Shaw

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

George Bernard Shaw

Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

George Bernard Shaw

Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.

George Bernard Shaw

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Gelett Burgess

Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.

Galway Kinnell

Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

Freema Agyeman

I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren't getting done quickly.

Freeman Dyson

It's amazing how much progress there's been in China, and also India. Those are the places that really matter - they're half of the world's population. They're the places where things are enormously better now than they were 50 years ago. And I don't see anything that's going to stop that.

Freeman Dyson

Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

Freeman Dyson

Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.

Freeman Dyson

The whole point of science is that most of it is uncertain. That's why science is exciting--because we don't know. Science is all about things we don't understand. The public, of course, imagines science is just a set of facts. But it's not. Science is a process of exploring, which is always partial. We explore, and we find out things that we understand. We find out things we thought we understood were wrong. That's how it makes progress.

Fred Brooks

How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

Franz Kafka

There will be no proof that I ever was a writer.

Franz Kafka

I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.

Erich Honecker

Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.

Phillip Fulmer

Britton has got to prove he's a big-time kicker.

(Brown) wasn't a professor here, he was only a student here.

Shawn Amos

Brands' products should be the manifestation of a company's values. Those values should be the subject of all sorts of wonderful stories that comprise your company's narrative.

Be sure you have proper documentation to back up any deductions you claim.

Everything I proposed and much more still will be done now,

Even though we know we're much better on paper, we still have to prove it to ourselves.

Even though we don't have any outbreak now, we want to take all the precautions we can to protect our product.

Be proud, Mom, because I'm proud of you, and we're here tonight, and it's so good.

Blight 50 years ago entailed serious problems and neglect,

Billy, are you surprised Roy Williams was able to turn this program around so quickly?

John Wooden

Bill, I know what the other schools say. If you come to UCLA, I can't promise you'll make our team,

Bigelow could get it in every supermarket in America, but the problem is we have to have enough to provide. We don't want to get into a situation where the supermarkets are saying send us more tea and we say we haven't got it.

Everything's great. I haven't had a problem out of anything.

Every day is progress. We're making progress like a turtle, but we're making progress in the right direction, I think.

Every human-being has the propensity to be an upstanding citizen.

Baseball's a tough game. We're making a lot of progress.