Quotes About Advancement

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs.

Knowledge only progresses by making mistakes as fast as possible.

The Church has no reason to exist except for the advancement of His Kingdom into areas it has never been before!

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

Soldiering'll soon be nothing but wizards and wires.

Everybody in this room knows the basic rule: if you don't have a seat at the table, you are probably on the menu.

Elizabeth Winthrop

In time the earth will be inhabited by almost god-like beings who shall analyze and discuss the remnants of humanity as we now discuss the chimpanzee.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

At every stage of development our life may be perfect; yet if God's purpose for us is fulfilled, there will be continual advancement. Sanctification is the work of a lifetime. As our opportunities multiply, our experience will enlarge, and {66} our knowledge increase. We shall become strong to bear responsibility, and our maturity will be in proportion to our privileges.

Every Adversity of Life is an Advancement. Although, it may be worrisome sometimes. But never mind. Because, at the long run. You will be advanced by it. For, every Adversity is designed to reinforce you to become stronger enough in Life and never weaker. -Emeasoba George

No one is perfect. And nothing is perfect as well. In fact, anyone or anything that seems perfect can still be improved. That is to say, no one or nothing is beyond improvement. Yes! no matter how presentable he, she or it appears.

You don't have to be good at anything before you can begin. Yes, just dare to begin. For, you will surely/gradually/eventually become good, better and even the best at it.

Les ravages de la "civilisation" sont si évidents qu'on a honte de les signaler encore.

The progress of a science is proven by the progress toward solution of the problems it treats.

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

Probably if we had historic records of the ante-historic ages—if some superhuman power had set down the thoughts and actions of men ages before they could set them down for themselves—we should know that this first step in civilization was the hardest step. But when we come to history as it is, we are more struck with the difficulty of the next step.

Every development, I have said, implies the negation of its point of departure.

We created something a little closer to perfection than ourselves; maybe that's the only way to progress. Let them try to do the same.

My writing style has changed dramatically over the years, growing increasingly clean and exact. I like to think that I'm still improving -- that each book I write is a new personal best.

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