Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Ernest Lawrence

No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.

Ernest Lawrence

I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.

Fidel Castro

The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.

Helen Keller

He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

Cat Stevens

All things can be forgiven if we can progress.

As enunciated today, 'progress' is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

Kofi Annan

Africans are making important progress on all fronts,

There's been significant progress, but that progress is not quite enough.

Stephen Smith

There's been no progress but we're still talking.

Kim Gandy

A lot of strong women there. But sometimes it is a tough place to make progress on our issues.

This is a milestone of the progress in this field.

There was no progress on any of them.

The reports we are getting right now on where he's at and the progress he's making are really positive, so we're thinking he's going to be racing on Saturday.

Ernst Mayr

Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.

Cassandra Clare

Ma'am," Magnus said, advancing. "I must counsel you not to exit the carriage while a demon-slaying is in progress.

Christopher Hitchens

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

Frank Herbert

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

Haile Selassie

We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.

Gunter Grass

I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next... of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

Jay Inslee

Now is the time to scrub ideology out of the energy discussion, so we can make bi-partisan progress towards investing in a shared and better future.

Milton Friedman

Everywhere, and at all times, economic progress has meant far more to the poor than to the rich.