The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.
I argue against literal interpretation of religious doctrines. Religions make progress when they emancipate themselves from literalism, and take their doctrinal statements to be metaphors or allegories.
History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to appear in new habiliments, as the feeding and growing grub, at intervals, casts its too narrow skin and assumes another.
We do more talking progress than we do progressing.
We have a rare chance to pursue a new path, a different, better future that delivers progress for both our peoples and the wider world. That's the opportunity before the Iranian people. We need to take advantage of that.
Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area. ' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.
God isn't keeping a record of each time we fall, but He is excited about our progress, and we should be excited, too!
Don't worry about making mistakes. In fact, the more mistakes you make, the more progress you are making. Just don't repeat the same mistakes.
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.
Success should not necessarily be gauged by always reaching the goal set, but by progress and attainment.
We know there is no progress in a straight line.
If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.
We're starting to make some progress. But there's still gonna be some pain out there. If I don't have this done in three years, then there's gonna be a one-term proposition.
Because of the disruption phenomenon - technological progress outstripping the ability of customers to utilize it - the general tendency is for the money to migrate toward the subsystems.
Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years.
Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.
Man's material discoveries have outpaced his moral 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.
