1,930 Quotes About Progress

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

I feel a lot better, ... I feel like I saw my progress.

No matter how much progress one makes, there is always the thrill of just beginning.

Repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. Attacking only steep cliffs where no progress is made isn’t particularly effective either. No, the best path is an endless series of difficult (but achievable) hills.

Trust is precious and easily wasted, and guessing is a lousy foundation for future progress.

Natural selection is just three factors - over-production, variation, and inheritance combined to produce adaptation to changing local environments. It's not a principle or progress; it's just a principle of local adaptation. You don't make better creatures in any cosmic sense; you make creatures that are better suited to the changing climates of their local habitats.

Each worldview was a cultural product, but evolution is true and separate creation is not. [...] Worldviews are social constructions, and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully. Fact and theory are intertwined, and all great scientists understand the interaction.

Good heavens! what a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears!

Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.