Quotes About Advancement

I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs.

Our nation's blood supply is safer than it's ever been, and it's getting safer as we speak.

In political science, public support doesn't have a reverse gear. It always goes forward.

Email has explosively supported the growth of letter writing globally.

You're supposed to grow as you get older.

I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance.

The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age.

I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.

Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

After completing a Delaware State education, they were afforded opportunities beyond anything they might have imagined - and they opened doors for themselves that surely would have remained closed if they only had a high school education.

Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.

Robots have already surpassed human beings in calculation and memory, but I have no doubt that the time will come when they will surpass in wisdom as well.

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

The revolution in deep nets has been very profound. It definitely surprised me, even though I was sitting right there.

With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.

By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.

Modern technology gives us surprising glimpses into human development. It helps us plan for and celebrate new life.

Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.

That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it.

And I would add, by the way, that this projectification of the child has only increased with the liberation of women. Ambitious women, who have invested so much in their education and careers, are required to make sacrifices to their own advancement by the obstruction that is a child. And so these mothers will require of that child that it really be worth the sacrifice, worth the slowing down of their own scramble up the ladder of success.

How do they find out with the experiments?' '...one way they can find out a whole lot is to make an animal ill and then try different ways to make it better until they find one that works.' 'But isn't that unkind to the animal?' 'Well, I suppose it is...but I mean, there isn't a dad anywhere who would hesitate, is there, if he knew it was going to make [his child] better? It's changed the whole world during the last hundred years, and that's no exaggeration.

Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.

Science] works! Planes fly. Cars drive. Computers compute. If you base medicine on science, you cure people. If you base the design of planes on science, they fly. If you base the design of rockets on science, they reach the moon. It works... bitches.