Quotes About Advancement

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement.

Though thy beginning was small yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

For a long time, we've worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. It's time to move on to the next stage.

I'm learning all the time. I'm evolving all the time as a human being. I'm getting better, I hope, in all of the important ways.

In this world and the world of tomorrow, we must go forward together or not at all.

The digital and physical worlds are starting to come together more seamlessly - it's only the tip of the iceberg in terms of what's coming.

The more the society becomes a technological society, the less it has to hold itself together.

All great progress takes place when two sciences come together, and when their resemblance proclaims itself, despite the apparent disparity of their substance.

Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress.

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.

We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

vous ne pouvez contester l'inestimable bénéfice que j'apporterai à l'humanité jusqu'à la dernière génération

The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It's one of the never-ending cycles in life.

It includes moving towards or leaning closer to you. For

There are two ways to tell the story of the twentieth century. You can describe a series of wars, revolutions, crises, epidemics, financial calamities. Or you can point to the gentle but inexorable rise in the quality of life of almost everybody on the planet: the swelling of income, the conquest of disease, the disappearance of parasites, the retreat of want, the increasing persistence of peace, the lengthening of life, the advances in technology.

the Stone Age did not come to an end for lack of stone.

Some are worse off than they were just a few months or years before. But the vast majority of people are much better fed, much better sheltered, much better entertained, much better protected against disease and much more likely to live to old age than their ancestors have ever been. The availability of almost everything a person could want or need has been going rapidly upwards for 200 years and erratically upwards for 10,000 years before

First, I need to convince you that human progress has, on balance, been a good thing, and that, despite the constant temptation to moan, the world is as good a place to live as it has ever been for the average human being – even now in a deep recession.

The cumulative accretion of knowledge by specialists that allows us each to consume more and more different things by each producing fewer and fewer is, I submit, the central story of humanity. Innovation changes the world

The cumulative accretion of knowledge by specialists that allows us each to consume more and more different things by each producing fewer and fewer is, I submit, the central story of humanity.

So growth will resume – unless prevented by the wrong policies. Somebody, somewhere, is still tweaking a piece of software, testing a new material, or transferring a gene that will make your and my life easier in the future.

The free thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

pipes and wires, a web of rails that went off into black holes where green and red lights hung as distant drops of color. There was nothing else, nothing to dilute it, so that one could admire