Quotes About Advancement

All my skill sets have grown; my experience in the Octagon has grown. I honestly just think I'm getting better with every fight.

The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.

Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills.

Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.

Leaders love progress.

I love superconductors.

Success only breeds a new goal

Betty Friedan via Lynn Gilbert

From almost nothing, France in four years built up an aircraft industry that employed nearly 200,000 people and produced some 70,000 planes. Britain built 55,000 planes, Germany 48,000, and Italy 20,000 – quite an advance bearing in mind that only a few years earlier the entire world aviation industry consisted of two brothers in a bicycle shop in Ohio.

Each mobile phone today – indeed, each washing machine – has more computing power than NASA could deploy on the Apollo programme.

Seldom – perhaps never – has science been driven forward more swiftly and successfully by animosity.

The first pacemaker was about the size of a pack of cigarettes. Today's are no bigger than one American quarter and can last up to ten years.

It is remarkable to think that we have had electric lights and telephones for about as long as we have known that germs kill people.

Strive for Progress Not Perfection

I'm also a technophile. Show me a problem, and I'll look for technology to fix it.

You must run before you can walk!

All that is made perfect by progress perishes also by progress.

I'm not sure he's wrong about automobiles, he said. With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization -- that is, in spiritual civilization. It may be that they will not add to the beauty of the world, nor to the life of men's souls.

Progress in science is governed by the laws of repulsion, every step forward is made by refutation of prevalent errors and false theories.

Today, there's more computing power in a cell phone than there was on Apollo 11, and that brought us to the moon and back.

Men sneered at vivisection, and yet look at its results today! Why not advance science in its most difficult and vital aspect, the knowledge of the brain?

It's the same with people as well as all other living organisms: if you are not growing, you are dying.

Better living through chemistry

Learning should not only take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily.