Quotes About Advancement

Every fresh advance which we make only reveals a fresh ridge beyond. And yet we have surely made some appreciable progress.

All decisive advances in the history of scientific thought can be described in terms of mental cross-fertilization between different disciplines.

Mankind is growing out of religion as out of its childhood clothes. - On Religion

Before you take anything away you must have something better to put in its place.

They were State-of-the-Art machines. They could flatten history and stack it up like building material.

There are risks to this surgery, but they used to be much greater.

perfect their skills, and move on to a better position.

Although it had attracted wide interest across the country and had grown rapidly

For it is through the coming together of self-actualized individuals, female and male, that any real advances can be made. The old sexual power relationships based on a dominant/subordinate model between unequals have not served us as a people, nor as individuals.

A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

I enjoyed the feeling that comes with becoming a better person.

He was the world-renowned tamer of lightning, the man who had disarmed the heavens, who had vanquished superstition with reason.

Czy je?eli ludo?erca je no?em i widelcem - to post?p?

Im wy?sza w galaktyce cywilizacja, tym wi?cej tam na?miecono.

The only way to deal with technology is with another technology. Man knows more about his dangerous tendencies than he did a hundred years ago, and in the next hundred years, his knowledge will be even more advanced. Then he will make use of it.

we have wholly abandoned ourselves to the mercy of technological progress. The roles are now reversed: humanity becomes, for technology, a means, an instrument for achieving a goal unknown and unknowable.

Humanity is a young species in a very old universe, it was expected that any intelligence out there, if they exist all, were probably much older than mankind-and perhaps that very advancement was why we couldn't perceive them.

Things just keep going.

He saw that to be firm soldiers they must go forward.

It is perhaps the consummate irony," Arthur Moore writes, "that at each step up from savagery the human race has regarded the fruits of progress with a degree of misgiving and often longed against reason for a return to a simpler condition.

A critical fact in the world of 1801 was that nothing moved faster than the speed of a horse. No human being, no manufactured item, no bushel of wheat, no side of beef (or any beef on the hoof, for that matter), no letter, no information, no idea, order, or instruction of any kind moved faster.

A man whose birthday was in 1829 or earlier had been born into a world in which President Andrew Jackson traveled no faster than Julius Caesar, a world in which no thought or information could be transmitted any faster than in Alexander the Great's time.

The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date. Only a few people can keep up with the rapidly advancing frontier of knowledge, and they have to devote their whole time to it and specialize in a small area. The rest of the population has little idea of the advances that are being made or the excitement they are generating.

We believe human begins have existed for only a small fraction of cosmic history, because human race has been improving so rapidly in knowledge and technology that if people had been around for millions of years, the human race would be much further along in it's mastery.