Quotes About Advancement

true progress is achieved through moving forward to a better way of life, rather than upward to total life incompetence.

Man's First Mistake: The Wheel

super-incumbent," who is "a person above you who, having reached his level of incompetence, blocks your path to promotion").

There is nowhere to go but on.

as technology has changed, so have our tools.

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.

There can be no progress (real, that is, moral) except in the individual and by the individual himself.

Shoe strangles the foot. But it advances. (La chaussure étrangle le pied. Mais elle fait avancer)

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

That I growed up a man and not a beast says something for me.

streets, came nearer and nearer.

But when society is the name for such hollow gentlemen and ladies...and when its breeding is professed indifference to everything that can advance or can retard mankind, I think we must have lost ourselves in that same Desert of Sahara, and had better find the way out.

That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.

One fails forward toward success.

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

Social progress and changes of historical period take place in proportion to the advance of women toward liberty, and social decline occurs as a result of the diminution of the liberty of women.

relentlessly strive to come up with new and better products and produce them more efficiently than the alternatives.

The Greek geographers of Alexandria, when they prepared their world map using the circumference of Eratosthenes, had in front of them source maps that had been drawn without the Eratosthenian error, that is, apparently without any discernible error at all. We shall see further evidence of this, evidence suggesting that the people who originated the maps possessed a more advanced science than that of the Greeks.

Evolution: one small step for man, one giant leap backward for mankind.

As long as you're green, you're growing; as soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

Any increase in knowledge anywhere helps pave the way for an increase in knowledge everywhere.

Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.