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The price of progress is trouble, and I must be making a lot of progress.

If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied.

Charles E. Wilson

Progress

Living

Wages

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.

I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.

Maurice Wilkins

Mistake

Progress

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Oscar Wilde

Progress

Ambition

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

Well, one thing that has happened is they have had a presidential election in Egypt which has represented progress. Now, we were not happy with everything that happened with the parliamentary elections, and it was not exactly a perfect presidential election in Egypt.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Alfred North Whitehead

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

Alfred North Whitehead

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Alfred North Whitehead

Progress