Quotes About Advancement

once science had declared a thing possible, there was no escape from its eventual realization…

Clarke's Law—"any increasingly complex technology will look like magic"—signified the undertow which in the Age of Limbaugh

Anything is better than stagnation.

The charlatan is always the pioneer... The quack of yesterday is the professor of tomorrow.

Vestigia nulla retrorsum. Never look rearwards.

It means moving forward with courage," she answered.

Technology has become the way Western man perceives progress. But technology itself is a reflection of how we see ourselves. If the negativity is in us, it will appear somewhere in our technology.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.

We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance with barbarism.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on to him and they still give him much trouble at times.

The only person with whom you have to compare yourself is you in the past.

the hallmark of the Enlightenment was off to the races.

The goal toward which I surpass myself must appear to me as a point of departure toward a new act of surpassing.

The charlatan is always the pioneer. From the astrologer came the astronomer, from the alchemist the chemist, from the mesmerist the experimental psychologist. The quack of yesterday is the professor of tomorrow.

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilization may be carried triumphantly forward.

I think I've grown out of it. It's a natural process: you gain everything you can from a place and then you move on.

... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.

I want to grow. I don't want to get stuck doing the same thing over and over and think I'm the best at it.

There is room for improvement in every life. Regardless of our occupations, regardless of our circumstances, we can improve ourselves and while so doing have an effect on the lives of those about us.

People feel happier when they feel like they're progressing. When they feel like something in their life is growing or getting better.

Life means progress, and progress means suffering.

If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial?

Life is definitely always about expanding. That's how we grow.

Why stay we on earth except to grow?