I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Charles Kettering

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
Walter Bagehot

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
Charles Kettering

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
Charles Kettering

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
Mao Zedong

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
James Thurber

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
Herbert Spencer

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.
Henry Van Dyke

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
John Stuart Mill

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
Simone Weil

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
Sydney J. Harris

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
Stanislaw Lec

When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.
Orison Swett Marden

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
Salman Rushdie

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
Baruch Spinoza

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
Gaston Bachelard

It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.
Paul Dirac

One can not impede scientific progress.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad