Progress

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PROGRESS: So much in the world has been destroyed that I have cast my lot with those who, age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world. (Adrienne Rich, U.S. poet and essayist, know for bringing the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse, 1929-2012)

PROGRESS: The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable. (Unknown Source)

PROGRESS: So much in the world has been destroyed that I have cast my lot with those who, age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world. (Unknown Source)

PROGRESS: Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural - while it was recent. (Unknown Source)

PROGRESS: Progress lies not in what is enhancing, but in advancing of what will be. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)

PROGRESS: Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural - while it was recent. (Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

PROGRESS: The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. (Alfred North Whitehead, British mathematician and philosopher, 1861-1947)

PROGRESS: Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent. (Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

PROGRESS: Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. (Thomas Huxley, English biologist who was an advocate of Charles Darwin\'s theory of evolution)

PROGRESS: I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. (Oliver W. Holmes, Jr., U.S. jurist who served for 30 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1841-1935)

PROGRESS: Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. (Margaret Mead, U.S. cultural anthropologist, author, and speaker on the mass media, 1901-1978)

PROGRESS: The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village. (Marshall McLuhan, Canadian philosopher whose study of media history is one of the cornerstones of media theory, 1911-1980)

PROGRESS: And from the discontent of man the world's best progress springs. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox, U.S. author and poet, 1850-1919)

PROGRESS: Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. (James Bryant Conant, U.S. chemist, a transformative President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany, 1893-1978)

PROGRESS: The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. (Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher, 1861-1947)

PROGRESS: Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake. (Wendell Phillips, U.S. abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, and attorney, 1811-1884)

PROGRESS: Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door. (Simeon Strunsky, Russian-born Jewish American essayist and editorialist, 1879-1948)

PROGRESS: The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

PROGRESS: Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic, and more time to drive to the office. (Unknown source)

PROGRESS: What we call progress is the exchange of one Nuisance for another Nuisance. (Havelock Ellis, English physician, writer, writer, and social reformer who studied human sexuality, 1859-1939)

PROGRESS: Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours. (Bill Vaughan, U.S. columnist and author, 1915-1977)

PROGRESS: Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork? (Stanislaw Lee, Polish poet and aphorist, 1909-1966)