Quotes About Advancement

Meddling is what we do. It's what defines us. Meddling gave us fire and tools and civilisation and the keys to the universe. Fingers will get burnt along the way, yes. That's the way of it.

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

The human spirit must prevail over technology.

Failure is success in progress

There is no great discoveries and advances, as long as there is an unhappy child on earth. / Ne možemo govoriti o napretku ?ovje?anstva, dok na svijetu ima nesretne djece.

One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell .

A free people, forgetting that it has a soul to be cared for, devotes all its energies to its material advancement. If it makes war, it is to subserve its commercial interests. The citizens copy after the State, and regard wealth, pomp, and luxury as the great goods of life. Such a nation creates wealth rapidly, and distributes it badly.

I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Ending is better than mending.

Medical Science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy man left.

civilization is sterilization

the goddess of Applied Science has presented the world with another gift, more precious even than these—the means of dissociating love from propagation.

The machine turns, turns and must keep on turning—for ever. It is death if it stands still. A thousand millions scrabbled the crust of the earth. The wheels began to turn. In a hundred and fifty years there were two thousand millions. Stop all the wheels. In a hundred and fifty weeks there are once more only a thousand millions; a thousand thousand thousand men and women have starved to death.

O que nos leva por fim - continuou o Sr. Foster - a deixar o domínio da simples imitação servil da natureza para entrar no mundo mais interessante da invenção humana

Y he aquí que el progreso de la tecnología ha llevado y sigue llevando todavía a esa concentración y centralización del poder.

Civilización es esterilización

The two seem, at first glance, to be opposed, but when you have advanced a little in both, you find that concentration learned in Yoga is of immense use in attaining the mental powers necessary in Magick; on the other hand, the discipline of Magick is of the greatest service in Yoga.

I find that I was wrong in suggesting that a Master of the Temple had a right to enter the temple of a Magus or an Ipsissimus. On the contrary, the rule that holds below, holds also above. The higher you go, the greater is the distance from one grade to another.

Well, we're all mortal...and the old must make way for the young, otherwise there would be no promotion.

There was a great deal of progress being made, right under their noses, particularly in Africa, and this progress was good. Life was much harder for tyrants than it had been before.

But you can certainly take fifteen years off everything these days." She paused. "But you can't take height off a mountain.

Could you say that your business had expanded if it had gone from owning one teapot to two? Somehow