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"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."
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"I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense."
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"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."
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"After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land."
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"If we were to suppose that mankind never can or will be in a better condition, it seems impossible to justify by any kind of theodicy the mere fact that such a race of corrupt beings could have been created on earth at all."
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"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."
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"Living in the past kills your future."
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"Unwavering incremental change can create remarkable and monumental results."
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"The best road to progress is freedom's road."
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"We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way."
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"I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today."
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"I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries."
Evil
"There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth."
Truth
"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."
Progress
"I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory."
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"After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it."
Science
"In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons."
Science
"I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy."
Family
"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."
Life
"All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child."
Life
"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
People
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