On the Nature of Progress
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Progress is rarely the smooth, inevitable march that textbooks describe; it advances in fits and starts, doubling back on itself, discarding once-cherished certainties along the way. Every breakthrough creates new problems, and every solution reveals questions no one thought to ask before. To mistake this restless, uneven process for a straight line toward perfection is to misunderstand both its power and its perpetual incompleteness. Progress is rarely the smooth, inevitable march that textbooks describe; it advances in fits and starts, doubling back on itself, discarding once-cherished certainties along the way. Every breakthrough creates new problems, and every solution reveals questions no one thought to ask before. To mistake this restless, uneven process for a straight line toward perfection is to misunderstand both its power and its perpetual incompleteness. Progress is rarely the smooth, inevitable march that textbooks describe; it advances in fits and starts, doubling back on itself, discarding once-cherished certainties along the way. Every breakthrough creates new problems, and every solution reveals questions no one thought to ask before. To mistake this restless, uneven process for a straight line toward perfection is to misunderstand both its power and its perpetual incompleteness. Progress is rarely the smooth, inevitable march that textbooks describe; it advances in fits and starts, doubling back on itself, discarding once-cherished certainties along the way. Every breakthrough creates new problems, and every solution reveals questions no one thought to ask before. To mistake this restless, uneven process for a straight line toward perfection is to misunderstand both its power and its perpetual incompleteness. Progress is rarely the smooth, inevitable march that textbooks describe; it advances in fits and starts, doubling back on itself, discarding once-cherished certainties along the way. Every breakthrough creates new problems, and every solution reveals questions no one thought to ask before. To mistake this restless, uneven process for a straight line toward perfection is to misunderstand both its power and its perpetual incompleteness.
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