Advancement Quotes

"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards" "Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows" "Science enhances the moral environment." "Science which has become a great power in the last centuries will go on progressing and will strip away the veils covering the greatest problems of life" "Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival." "Science is not just about studying the world. It’s about changing it" "Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes" "The more humanity advances the more it is degraded." "A common mistake is assuming that civilization will consistently advance in productive ways without considering the role of human nature and unpredictability in influencing progress." "The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease." "Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born" "There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words" "The greatest advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur " "Machines take me by surprise with great frequency"