#progress

Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#careers #complete #contemplated #drudgery #experiments

When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#backlash #confident #daughter #equality #ever

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future. ↗

— Barack Obama

#answers #break #clear #country #even

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork? ↗

— Stanislaw Lec

#fork #progress #uses

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it. ↗

— Barack Obama

#care #care costs #costs #could #deficit

There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30. ↗

— Steve Odland

#change #corporate #ethics #focus #last

Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#called #evolution #god #progress #sometimes

I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately to be effective in the political world. ↗

— John Podesta

#effective #i #i think #ideas #order

There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there. ↗

— John Prescott

#better #growth #only #place #progress

At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#eccentric #first #i #just #maybe