Quotes About Advancement

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Maxwell's equations didn't just change the world. They opened up a new one.

How our horizons shrink when we stride towards them.

Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible.

El progreso llega a través de la capacidad de aprender, y es irresistible.

They have fixed our nutrition and arranged our life-span. More than this, and ahead of this, efforts will not be productive.

La uva madura no puede volver a la inmadurez, y la evolución humana no puede detenerse.

There is no failure, just the gradual process of success.

Yet when his classmates put their blades to a colored cadaver, they did more for the cause of colored advancement than the most high-minded abolitionist. In death the negro became a human being. Only then was he the white man's equal.

Acceptance is always progression.

As soon as we realise our primitivity, the world can progress to true greatness.

Creation is the only progression there is.

Nothing is more dangerous than contentment without progression.

Progress together or do not progress at all.

The further the leap forward, the greater and more abundant the sacrifices.

This is the time for me to hone my methodologies for the world to see; to truly make this world better.

We are quite primitive still, are we not?

Maurice Oh yeah, I started out mopping the floor just like you guys. Then I moved up to washing lettuces. Now, I'm working the fat fryer. Pretty soon I'll make assistant manager, and that's when the big bucks start rolling in.

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

There is no all-?purpose computer built that weighs as little as a hundred and fifty pounds. You do.

Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat.

We have been swamped by a tsunami of new technologies, without pausing to consider whether they are good or bad, helpful or hurtful. Are they making us more thoughtful, more articulate, more loving?

Limited Resources + Increasing Passion = Exponential Innovation