
1960s, Keep Moving From This Mountain (1965)
Eric Voegelin (1987), The New Science of Politics: An Introduction, ISBN 0226861147, p. 131
1960s, Keep Moving From This Mountain (1965)
“Error is the price we pay for progress.”
1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)
“This is the price that must be paid for progress and it is worth it.”
The Rickover Effect (1992)
Context: Everything new endangers something old. A new machine replaces human hands; a new source of power threatens old businesses; a new trade route wipes out the supremacy of old ports and brings prosperity to new ones. This is the price that must be paid for progress and it is worth it.
1960s, The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousnes (1960)
“The price of chemical ecstasy was a dear one, paid in flesh and spirit.”
Source: Street Lethal (1983), Chapter 5 “Knight Takes Pawn” (pp. 64-65)
“Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight”
Sketchbook 1946-1949
“Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.”
As quoted in Optimum Sports Nutrition (1993) by Michael Colgan, p. 144