Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franz Grillparzer

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

Franz Grillparzer

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

Frank Zappa

Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.

Jeb Bush

I would say national security is work in progress.

The great obstacle to progress is prejudice

George Eastman

The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.

George Eliot

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

Guy deBord

Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it

George Bernard Shaw

All progress is due to the unreasonable person.

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.

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.

Erich Honecker

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

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

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

The talks have been constructive. We have had progress.

This was a tragic event, but there may be some opportunities here for us. Let's just say we're making progress.

Strobe Talbott

These are tough issues, ... It's a work in progress.

I've seen so much progress. We have come from recycling about 100,000 tons a year 15 years ago to more than 500,000 tons.

J. C. Watts

There's no progress. Talking is talking. Progress is progress.

Gordon Brown

We welcome the progress towards flexibility that has been made in China,

We feel we're making progress and every day we're getting closer.

The continuation of talks shows there is progress.

In most respects, we think he's making progress.

Miles O'Brien

Doesn't look like much progress has been made there.

Then we'll see if we can get him into some sort of games. It's time for him to progress a little bit.