Quotes About Advancement

Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.

I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

A dry well is not a friend of a thirsty man; and an ignorant man, of the progression!

From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.

Helmut Lang is an amazing man - always striving, always moving forward.

The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation.

If the monkeys had been concerned only with monkey Beings they would never have become men.

I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.

For most purposes, a man with a machine is better than a man without a machine.

It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.

I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.

The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.

The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities.

Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

Golf took young kids like Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan and myself out of the caddie ranks and gave us money and a little bit of fame and let us live in the tall cotton.

It's simple arithmetic: "Your income can grow only to the extent you do."

Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it.

It is tribute to how far we have come in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money to perform experiments whose results we can not predict.

Every decision you make takes you one step closer to being wealthy ... or one step further away.

It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to make it into four shillin' . . . there is no end to it.