Quotes About Advancement

All growth demands destruction.

Life is growth; not to move forward, is to fall backward; life remains life, only so long as it advances.

There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.

Rather than subsidize the past, we should invest in the future.

in a climate of constant technological change.

that it wasn't just an exercise in vanity or ambition but rather a part of an unbroken chain of progress.

The future is won by those who build and not destroy.

Later, you add to that definition: making money. How much money can you make?

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Science works, of course, but from an aesthetic point of view, was it really a great improvement over mythology? Why do we insist that theories work, when they might just as well sit around and look pretty? I couldn't help observing that for every advance in science...some perfectly competent goddess or demiurge is put out of work, a hypothesized spirit dies, or a living thing surrenders its autonomy.

our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

I became determined to know a few steps more of that path every day.

If you want to create opportunities, you have to create movement.

Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?

Much of human progress has involved reducing the time and energy, as well as the number of processes we have to engage in and think about, for each of us to obtain the necessities of life.

Out of his private victories, public victories began to come.

In all of life, there are sequential stages of growth and development. A child learns to turn over, to sit up, to crawl, and then to walk and run. Each step is important and each one takes time. No step can be skipped.

Preserve the Core AND Stimulate Progress

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The resulting progress is astounding, outstripping our ability to appreciate the multifarious changes. Some 200 years ago the average human lifespan in the United States was 37 years; it now approaches 88! About 100 years ago, an American farmer could feed on average just four others; today, it is 200! Fifty years ago the Oxford English Dictionary weighed 300 pounds and took up 4 feet of shelf space; today, it fits on a 1-ounce flash drive or can be accessed via the Web from virtually anywhere!

income and education are strongly correlated

We're all going forwards and we're never coming back.

But Engels and Dickens suggested a new twist: that the advance of civilization produced barbarity as an unavoidable waste product, as essential to its metabolism as the gleaming spires and cultivated thought of polite society. The barbarians weren't storming the gates.

That's the way progress works: the more we build up these vast repertoires of scientific and technological understanding, the more we conceal them.