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.
