"I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment."
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"Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition."
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"Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas."
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"I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more."
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"Lack of emotion causes lack of progress and lack of motivation."
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"A scientist is never certain. ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning."
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"Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison."
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"The world is for newness, not for oldness. New, new things we have to create. Then only the world will progress. If not, we will come to feel that there is nothing new under the sun. We have to create new things to keep our joy. If there is no newness, how can we have enthusiasm? And if there is no enthusiasm, do we make any progress?"
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"That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it."
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"Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again."
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"Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress."
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"True progress is slow but sure."
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"In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity. The distance between you and them can one day become so great that your joyous cry over some new gain could be answered by an universal shriek of horror."
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"This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress."
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"Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense."
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"Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders."
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"As a planning board commissioner, I have to review the applications for development throughout the city, and the bulk of those applications have been for the waterfront. I think the progress the waterfront has made is amazing."
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"The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin."
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"Private ownership of land is the nether mill-stone. Material progress is the upper mill-stone. Between them, with an increasing pressure, the working classes are being ground."
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"The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires."
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