Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

当观察迫使我们改变我们的先入之见时，科学进步得最好。

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.

科学进步使道德进步成为必然;因为如果人的力量增强了，阻止他滥用力量的制约就必须加强。

Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country.

从那时到现在，一直在进步，一直在变化。这些变化并不是自发的;这些变化来自这个国家每个人的行动。

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.

君主和大臣的奴隶制度尚未废除，世界将长期摆脱这种制度，其致命的控制将阻碍人类思想的进步。

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

社会进步既取决于结果本身，也取决于取得进步的过程。

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

斯宾塞的上帝是进化，有时也被称为进步。

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

如果不发展出需要新疗法的新弊病，就很难在朝着更好的方向取得实质性进展。

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

技术进步就像病态罪犯手中的斧头。

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

进步的残酷被称为革命。当它们结束时，我们意识到:人类受到了粗暴的对待，但它已经进步了。

The century on which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.

我们正在进入的这个世纪可以而且必须是普通人的世纪。

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

科学进步的特点是我们知道我们不知道。

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

人类进步的主要障碍是人类。

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

进步的致命隐喻，意味着把事情抛诸脑后，完全掩盖了成长的真正含义，意味着把事情留在我们的内心。

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

思想自由是每个人的神圣权利，随着人类智力的进步、完善和分化，多样性将不断增加。

The good news is that we are making progress. The bad news is that we're doing too little and moving much too slowly.

好消息是我们正在取得进展。坏消息是我们做得太少，行动太慢。