#progress

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason. ↗

— Albert Pike

#comparison #discovery #divine #doubt #doubting

Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#general #general public #imposing #inquiry #intrinsic

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.' ↗

— Colin Powell

#being #black #come #i #longer

It's not a matter of if economies around the world becoming low-carbon, but when and how: through struggle and strife or through advancement and progressive leadership. Larry Elliot described it today as the 'Green New Deal.' It's a leadership we in Britain can provide, and from which our economy can benefit. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#around #becoming #benefit #britain #deal

Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#armaments #contributes #depends #disarmament #limitation

I think that we must come together progressively, with the British, the Germans, the Spanish, the Italians and with the new members of the European Union, we must make an effort to forge closer links. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#closer #come #effort #european #european union

You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China's progress is important to us. ↗

— Sellapan Ramanathan

#because #certainly #china #developing #direction

We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy. ↗

— Rodrigo Rato

#american economy #believe #carry #consequence #economy

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group. ↗

— Herbert Read

#becomes #clearly #farther #group #individual

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society. ↗

— Herbert Read

#differentiation #measured #progress #society #within