Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust each other.

My sense is they haven't made much progress.

Ayn Rand

The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.

Ayn Rand

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

Cam Newton

You cannot make progress with excuses.

Bryant H. McGill

Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.

But, we have seen no progress to date.

Louise Arbour

but the question is, will it be taken over by steady progress or go into decline.

I don't think any progress has been made on that front.

I can't say really that there has been progress,

I don't know where this thing stands. I would think the PGA Tour is making some progress, but some slow progress. It's going to take some time. I'm sure they're doing the right things.

I don't know where this thing stands, ... I would think the PGA Tour is making some progress, but some slow progress. It's going to take some time. I'm sure they're doing the right things.

Stephen Jay Gould

Natural selection is just three factors - over-production, variation, and inheritance combined to produce adaptation to changing local environments. It's not a principle or progress; it's just a principle of local adaptation. You don't make better creatures in any cosmic sense; you make creatures that are better suited to the changing climates of their local habitats.

The progress that some of the manufacturers have been making seems to have stalled.

The progress is such that we can have a provisional separation.

We're still working. We're making slow progress, but it's a long process.

We've been making progress. That's all I'll say.

Ross Brawn

We need to see how things progress before we make those sort of predictions or scenarios,

Mohamed ElBaradei

Yes, we have seen progress but we need quick progress.

We'll have to wait to see how things progress through the process. We still have a long way to go through the session.

to make progress on reforming their foreign-exchange regime.

Stephen Jay Gould

Each worldview was a cultural product, but evolution is true and separate creation is not. [...] Worldviews are social constructions, and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully. Fact and theory are intertwined, and all great scientists understand the interaction.

Stephen Jay Gould

Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again.

H. L. Mencken

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

There has not been any progress on that front.

There has been progress in this (so far) and we don't want to have that progress slip away. ... We've been rolling this rock up the hillside and we don't want it to roll all the way back down.

Richard Boucher

We're told the session was useful. Preliminary reporting indicates that they made some progress.

Stephen Hadley

We think we're going to make progress on three of them.

Franklin Raines

We think we can make progress on upper-income premiums.

Paul Tagliabue

We're not making the kind of progress we need to be making. I don't think negotiations are going very well.

John Bolton

We didn't get everything we wanted, but we made progress.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

We still have a ways to go. I think we're making progress, but it's early.