Quotes About Advancement

You do your best until you know better, then you do better.

Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

Each single gain feeds into the gains of the body collective.

Rise and be prepared to move on and ever on.

He also knew when to stop. In the fine art of deceit and personal advancement as in any other calling this is the hallmark of the master.

So differential treatment is a part of socialism just as it is in capitalism, but in the latter system, self-dependency and self-reliance play the larger role in one's advancement, whereas in the former system, currying favor with the powers that be and hoping to be noticed plays the larger role in advancement.

Illiteracy is dependence. By finding the courage to learn to read and write, Hanna had advanced from dependence to independence, a step towards liberation.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.

We are accustomed to take progress for granted: to assume without hesitation that the changes which have happened during the last hundred years were unquestionably for the better, and that further changes for the better are sure to follow indefinitely.

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher; and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately, it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

any hypothesis, however absurd, may be useful in science, if it enables a discoverer to conceive things in a new way; but when it has served this purpose by luck, it is likely to become an obstacle to further advance.

Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right distributed throughout the community

All the pieces are put together, and the whole is yours …' A word grows to a thought — a thought to an idea — an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveller loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take.

After some time, my reputation preceded me each time I was given a new posting.

You see, greatness for a state doesn't require some huge monument for all to see. It is not a journey to a particular destination - but a commitment to follow a course of constant and never-ending improvement.

Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

America was and still is able to make the necessary changes to maintain research institutions that are the envy of the world.

It's good to have high-quality competition. It helps drive research forward at a faster pace.

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.

Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout their school years - from kindergarten through graduate school, 1972 to 1992 - women were starting to take their places in areas traditionally reserved mostly for men.

One way to understand human progress is to look at how technology has made products and services - once reserved for the elite - progressively more accessible and affordable.