People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
Alice Walker

The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
Thor Heyerdahl

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
Samuel Smiles

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
Samuel Smiles

Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
Talcott Parsons

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Kofi Annan

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

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Saint Francis de Sales

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
Dag Hammarskjold

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.
Tony Benn

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
Shirley Chisholm

Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.
William Banting

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee Williams

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee Williams

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
Indira Gandhi

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

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
Henry B. Adams

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

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.
Rutherford B. Hayes