Quotes About Advance

And so the mind or spirit is the great opportunist, itself impossible to pin down, take hold of, anywhere; one is tempted to believe that of all its influence nothing is left but decay. Every advance is a gain in particular and a separation in general; it is an increase in power leading only to a progressive increase in impotence, but there is no way to quit.

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance

Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.

Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee of readiness for farther progress.

In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.

We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals.

Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.

Into the street the piper stepped, Smiling first a little smile As if he knew what magic slept In his quiet pipe the while. And the piper advanced And the children followed.

Theology starts with dogmas, philosophy begins with problems. Philosophy sees the problem first, theology has the answer in advance

The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.

scientific knowledge is advanced by the systematic criticism and purging of what currently passes for knowledge, so in religion too we need to criticize and expel all the illusory and dysfunctional religious material we have inherited.

The law of life is to leave behind the ground one is standing on and then step forward.

Life is progressive, no matter what our intentions.

you can't keep standing still.

I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes or the parting of the waters.

Second, we should not allow the doctrine of God's sovereignty to cause us to respond passively to the actions of other people that affect us. We should take all reasonable steps within the will of God to protect and advance our situation.

His agenda for our lives that God will guard, protect, and advance. We must learn to live by His agenda if we are to trust Him.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.

The reason is precisely the advance of specialization, the impossibility of making safe general statements, which has led to a general imbecility.