“Scientists are typically good at making scientific progress, but not particularly good at articulating what the progress consists of.”

“Goals are good for planning your progress and systems are good for actually making progress.”

“Scientific and technological progress themselves are value-neutral. They are just very good at doing what they do. If you want to do selfish, greedy, intolerant and violent things, scientific technology will provide you with by far the most efficient way of doing so. But if you want to do good, to solve the world's problems, to progress in the best value-laden sense, once again, there is no better means to those ends than the scientific way.”

“In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas — and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed.”

“Scientific Progress goes boink?”

“Most social scientists consider the non-bureaucratic, or nonroutine organization to be good and the bureaucratic or routine organization to be bad (it impedes progress, is old- fashioned, is hard on its employees, etc.). But this judgment is debatable.”

“But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best.”

“In art progress consists not in extension but in the knowledge of its limits.”

“Most scientists today are devoid of ideas, full of fear, intent on producing some paltry result so that they can add to the flood of inane papers that now constitutes "scientific progress" in many areas.”

“I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.
Scout”