Quotes About Advancement

The road to success is always under construction. It is a progressive course, not an end to be reached.

If you're not growing, you're what? You're dying. If

In the 1820s there was prejudice, but there was also progress.

Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral

Science fiction could now be made far more convincing by science fact.

At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.

Toda tecnología lo suficientemente avanzada es indistinguible de la magia.

The existence of so much leisure would have created tremendous problems a century before. Education had overcome most of these, for a well stocked mind is safe from boredom.

Floyd sometimes wondered if the Newspad, and the fantastic technology behind it, was the last word in man's quest for perfect communications.

Even on Earth, the first steps in this direction had been taken. There were millions of men, doomed in earlier ages, who now lived active and happy lives thanks to artificial limbs, kidneys, lungs, and hearts. To this process there could be only one conclusion—however far off it might be.

And just fifty years had separated the Wright Brothers from the first jet airliners.

fantastic technology behind it, was the last word in man's quest for perfect communications. Here he was, far out in space, speeding away from Earth at thousands of miles an hour, yet in a few milliseconds he could see the headlines of any newspaper he pleased.

There was little work left of a routine, mechanical nature. Men's minds were too valuable to waste on tasks that a few thousand transistors, some photo-electric cells, and a cubic meter of printed circuits could perform.

Jede hinreichend fortschrittliche Technologie ist von Magie nicht zu unterscheiden

He had lost his race. And he knew that he had lost it, not by the few weeks or months that he had feared, but by millennia. The huge and silent shadows driving across the stars, more miles above his head than he dared to guess, were as far beyond his little Columbus as it surpassed the log canoes of paleolithic man. [...] All that the past ages had achieved was as nothing now: only one thought echoed and re-echoed through Reinhold's brain: The human race was no longer alone.

Ignorance, disease, poverty, and fear had virtually ceased to exist.

Orice tehnologie suficient de avansat? nu poate fi deosebit? de magie.

But they knew in their hearts that once science had declared a thing possible, there was no escape from its eventual realization… Childhood's End - Ch. 15

The time had not yet come when Man could leave his mark upon the Solar System.

Someone once said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

When his type vanished, if it ever did, the world would be a safer but less interesting place.

Please move forward," the voice had interrupted.

parecía ahora desoladoramente primitiva ante los poderes que le estaban llevando a un inimaginable sino.

seem quaint and archaic.