Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
As I've learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in progress.
I think the people who have really followed my career from the time I was seven years old can see my steady progress and see the type of person and athlete I am.
If we continue to cut something with each resolution, I would say we're making steady progress and sending a strong conservative message.
Had Barack Obama been obliged to take his degree at the University of Akron, say, it is doubtful that his progress would have been remotely as stellar.
We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.
Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.
Global sustainability is now the only avenue to future inclusive progress that can deliver the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris climate agreement.
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
As we progress as a species, we will unlock new means for enhancing our lives at every turn - and our conceptions of wealth and poverty will evolve in tandem.
When I worked in the White House for President Carter, we tried to do comprehensive tax reform and we made some progress, and other presidents have as well.
Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress.
Some people think it's a law that when productivity goes up, everybody benefits. There is no economic law that says technological progress has to benefit everybody or even most people. It's possible that productivity can go up and the economic pie gets bigger, but the majority of people don't share in that gain.
Ultimately, what the tech industry really cares about is ushering in the future, but it conflates technological progress with societal progress.
We adapt to technological progress by raising our minimum standards of living and working to stay above this rising threshold.
I'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a 'time out' from technological progress as we know it.
It turns out that the greatly underestimated downside of technological progress is a fractured world.
Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.
