Quotes About Advancement

History doesn't proceed in incremental little notches.

Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history.

The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people.

Science and the many benefits that science has produced have played a crucial part in our history and produced vast improvements to human welfare.

It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.

The best way to honor past accomplishments is by building on top of their breakthroughs.

I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all.

I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.

We have achieved two of the three alchemists' dreams: We have transmuted the elements and learned to fly. Immortality is next.

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the 19th century.

I hope I've grown. We all should grow from year to year.

I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one.

A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

Emphasis should be laid on the evolution of humanity.

What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

I worry that humanity has been "advanced" to its present level of incompetency because evolution works on the Peter Principle.