It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
The growth of knowledge and the growth of civilization are the same only if we interpret knowledge to include all the human adaptations to environment.
Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.
What has been done is but a small beginning of what has to come.
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world.
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Our mastery over the forces of nature has led to a rapid growth of population, and a vast accumulation of wealth; but these have brought with them such an amount of poverty and crime.
The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Preserve the core and stimulate progress.
The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
Big changes can start with very small steps.
The successive transition from one paradigm to another via revolution is the usual developmental pattern of mature science.