Quotes About Advancement

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

The great growling engine of change - technology.

The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.

First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Those who take up any subject with an open mind, willing to learn anything that will contribute to their advancement, comfort and happiness, are wise.

I really think that technology has the greatest potential to accelerate happiness of most things in the world

Make the second 50 the best 50

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

Health is the core of human development

I look forward to working with our leadership team to advance the causes of smaller government, lower taxes, eliminating terrorism, and providing affordable health care, among other issues.

Ideas shape the course of history.

Libraries are not made, they grow.

There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.

History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.

The progress of history is to take the impossible and turn it into the possible.

Never in history has distance meant less.

To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.

The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.

The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow.

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.