Quotes About Advancement

I love reading about all of the breakthroughs and all of the new tech, even just the little household things that are coming on the market. I've always been nerdy about that.

I love anything that has to do with expanding and becoming more than you can actually become. Going further than you did before.

Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very men who discovered electricity - who themselves not so long before would have been burned as wizards.

The path to human advancement relies upon discovery, and great discoveries often entail great risks. —the Azhar Book

There is a certain hubris to science, a belief that the more we develop technology and the more we learn, the better our lives will be.

Do you really expect to become more than a machine?" Taking no offense, Erasmus replied, "It is a human trait to better oneself, is it not? That is all I am trying to do.

Those who do not actively pursue progress and innovation soon find themselves at the tail end of history.

Your life only gets better when you get better.

Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse.

Continually upgrade your skills in your key result areas. Remember, however good you are today, your knowledge and skills are becoming obsolete at a rapid rate. As Pat Riley, the basketball coach, said, "Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse.

Eighty-six percent of the senior executives selected two qualities as being more important for career success and advancement than any others. First was the ability to set priorities, to separate the relevant from the irrelevant. Second was the ability to get the job done fast, to execute quickly.

To earn more you must learn more.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

La regla básica en relación con el desarrollo personal es que no puedes ir más allá de lo que has ido hoy con tu conocimiento y habilidad actuales.

For every gross male harasser, there are ten female sycophants who shamelessly use their sexual attractions to get ahead.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.

Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation.

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science.

If there is as a continuum from self-reproducing molecules, such as DNA, to microbes, and an evolutionary sequence continuum from microbes to humans, why should we imagine that continuum to stop at humans?

Science gropes and staggers toward improved understanding.

Our individual growth represents the advancement of the species. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery.

abandoning science is the road back into poverty and backwardness

Exactly the same technology can be used for good and for evil. It is as if there were a God who said to us, "I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It's up to you