Quotes About Advancement

that's true, then maybe we need to accept the idea that progress isn't such a bad thing, even when there's collateral damage. You shouldn't continue to use outdated methods when a better option exists just to maintain the status quo." "Come on, John Henry, you can't really believe that!" "Do you want technological advancement to remain stagnant? This could be your chance to acquire some new skills.

This quote I will do alone, leaving you behind. Don't follow. I'm well beyond you now, and traveling very fast.

you're going to find people from all over the country, everyone hungry for money and position. You won't make a name for yourself just doing what the next man does. You'll have to distinguish yourself in some way.

It is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.

His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.

Something is always better than nothing" no matter how small that "something" is.

And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?

Onward ever, backward never.

Scholarship must go on. For good or for evil, but inevitably, in every field.

But, I think the path to total world dominatiin by women will be much easier, if we're all extremely well educated.

My contention is that while progress in some of the great matters of human concern has been long proceeding in accordance with the law of a rapidly increasing geometric progression, progress in the other matters of no less importance has advanced only at the rate of an arithmetical progression or at best at the rate of some geometric progression of relatively slow growth. To see it and to understand it we have to pay the small price of a little observation and a little meditation.

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

Error is the price we pay for progress.

It is a profoundly erroneous truism that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

In some measure or other, progress is always a transcendence of what is obvious.

There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science.

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Don't hold back when you know you can go forward.

Without struggle there is no progress.

Food is so yesterday." Unfortunately, that was the last time I'd had some.

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.