Quotes About Advancement

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.

Growth is the only evidence of life.

The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.

The most intelligent thing you can possibly do with your life is to grow.

It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life.

The higher you go in a company, the less oxygen there is, so supporting intelligent life becomes difficult.

You have to get to the next level, or you're gonna get stuck where you are for the rest of your life.

Life isn't about getting more. It's about becoming more.

Let your life be your argument.

Every choice in life either moves you forward or keeps you stuck.

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

Probation means 'period of testing somebody's suitability; period when student must improve.

Why keep something just because it's old? New is almost always better than old, you know.

I understood it immediately. With each step up the ladder, the step beneath it disappeared, so that the higher she rose in life, the more vertiginous her position.

The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

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.

We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.

consider the fact that a journey from New York to Chicago by stagecoach would have taken three weeks or more in 1847. By 1857, that same trip by rail would have taken 72 hours.12

Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says, "All right, you can have a telephone but you lose privacy and the charm of distance. Madam, you may vote but at a price. You lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff or your petticoat. Mister, you may conquer the air but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline. Henry Drummond, a character in Inherit the Wind

would have no chance to leave a better one.