Friday, June 12, 2026

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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

— Russell Baker

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

— Madame de Stael

It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.

— Robert Winston

Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

— Bertrand Russell

Progress is the mother of problems.

— G. K. Chesterton

This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I'm making progress if today's problems are different from yesterday's.

— John Foster Dulles

Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

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