Quotes About Advancement

There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to direct themselves.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away - must be near at hand.

Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?

The walking of Man is falling forwards.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.

The reason why the race of man moves slowly is because it must move all together.

Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?

Man is something that is to be surpassed.

There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist — Then he was a Man and a Positivist.

Man's life is a progress, not a station.

Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.

Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the arch.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things which they shall do.

Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life.

Every new source from which man has increased his power on earth has been used to diminish the prospects of his successors.

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.

As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.

No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.

Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

It is my firm faith that man is by nature going higher.

One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.