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• Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.

  John Dewey

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in School, Imagination, Science

• If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Nature, Progress

  Tags in Material Possessions, Earth, Philosophy

• If we were to go back in time 100 years and ask a farmer what he’d like if he could have anything, he’d probably tell us he wanted a horse that was twice as strong and ate half as many oats. He would not tell us he wanted a tractor.

  Philip J. Quigley

  Topics in Progress

• Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.

  Isaac Mayer Wise

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Great, Problems

• Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

  Brian Tracy

  Topics in Life, Progress, Wisdom

  Tags in Persistence, Gratitude

• We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer… a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.

  Buffy Sainte Marie

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Change

• One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.

  Phil Hartman

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Career

• A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Topics in Mistake, Progress

• In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected.

  Bruno Rossi

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Through

• Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.

  Bruno Bauer

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Biggest

• People don’t want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology – all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.

  Peter Thiel

  Topics in Progress, Technology

  Tags in People, Believe

• Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Possible

• Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us.

  Dave Reichert

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Medical, Care

• Problems are the price you pay for progress.

  Branch Rickey

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Problems

• We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.

  Bobby Scott

  Topics in Progress

• If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

  Frederick Douglass

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Struggle

• Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

  Frederick Douglass

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Struggle

• Finds progress, man’s distinctive mark alone, Not God’s, and not the beast’s; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in God, Progress

  Tags in Alone

• People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

  Dale E. Turner

  Topics in Mistake, Progress

• Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.

  Paul Nurse

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Students, Science