Quotes About Advancement

And yet we've flashed from caveman to world wrecker in just three hundred generations. One moment there are these barefoot Neolithic hunters, bickering over a frozen caribou carcass. Turn around, and their children's children talk about tapping energy from pulsars.

this was a couple years before the sudden advance of someone in the luggage industry realizing that suitcases could be fitted with little wheels and telescoping handles so they could be pulled, which was just the sort of abrupt ingenious advance that makes entrepreneurial capitalism such an exciting system—it gives people incentive to make things more efficient).

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

But thou art all my art, and dost advance As high as learning my rude ignorance.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.

Time after time, history ran over the luddites and romanticists, those who sought to restore the old and delay the new. And every time, history did it with faster, more reliable and more advanced vehicles.

Me parece que solo será a partir de la próxima generación cuando caminar se convierta en algo vanguardista.

I was determined to move forward.

Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread - these are two laws of nature. If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood!

The grand march of progress apparently includes the unfortunate necessity of chopping down every obstacle in its way.

What difference does today introduce with respect to yesterday?

What a time! What a civilization!

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

Everybody knows that once you past it, you can't go back.

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

Is it better to have bronze than copper and tin separately? Is this the marker of some historic advance?

I don't think white people identify themselves as white Americans. They think their perspective is objective. They don't realize they're always invested in the advancement of white people.

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

We realized that among us, among all the races, we had a staggering fund of knowledge and of techniques - that working together, by putting together all this knowledge and capability, we could arrive at something that would be far greater and more significant than any race, alone, could hope of accomplishing.

If you're behind the curve, you're on the crest of a wave.

Learning is a continuous process. There is no growth without learning.

It may be true that one cannot stop progress, but the form of progress has always been contestable and open to variations.