Top 703 Advances Quotes & Sayings

I grew up in a generation that had exponential technological advances.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

With the egoic consciousness having become so dysfunctional, and now having at our disposal all these enormous technologies and scientific advances, if nothing changes the ego will use those things - as it already has been doing - and will amplify the technology that we now have. The scientific advances, to a large extent, will be used in the service of the ego, and they will become more and more destructive.

The future of society is 100% dependent on scientific advances.

All human advances occur in the outlaw area.

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. We have not fully recognized this process of leaping ahead, however, in part because textbooks tend to tame revolutions...They describe the advances as if they had been logical in their day, not all shocking.

Mexico has not achieved the advances that the population demands or deserves.

Man's greatest advances are weapon advances. Culture follows from weaponry, we are militant like the animals and birds - defending our homes. No matter how far back you go in history, along with the struggle for existence, along with the survival necessities - kill or be killed, eat or be eaten - there is a hunger for something spiritual. He invents God, prayers, incantations to something above him. Why? This is not brought out - this is not weapon culture.

The road recedes as the traveler advances, leaving a continuous present.

The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.

One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.

Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world. The appalling disparities of health and wealth and opportunity that condemned millions of people to the lives of despair. I learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas and economics, and politics. I got great exposure to the advances being made in the sciences. But humanities greatest advances are not in its discoveries, but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.

Scientists have made extraordinary advances in understanding the brain and its disorders.

Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church.

Advances in technology neither impede nor augment literature.

Science advances one funeral at a time.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.

The quicker humanity advances, the more important it is to be the one who deals the first blow.

A man that advances in spiritual and in temporal matters at the same time, minding to keep the spiritual first, will not let the temporal lead him; he will not place his heart upon his farm, his horses, or any possession that he has. He will place his desires in heaven, and will anchor his hope in that eternal soil; and his temporal affairs will come up as he advances in the knowledge of God.

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

Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

I think films are perishable, because they depend too much on technology, which advances too quickly and the films become old-fashioned, antiques. What I hope for is that technology advances to the point that films in the future will depend on a little pill which you take; then you sit in the dark, and from your eyes you project the film you want to see on a blank wall.

"The further art advances the closer it approaches science," said Leonardo da Vinci, painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and inventor of the wheelbarrow, and other useful instruments from the speaking tube to a mechanically gyp-proof whore-house, "the further science advances the closer it approaches art."

By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which is the science, by way of eminence, of living well and being happy), but all mankind together is making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older. So that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man who never ceases to live and learn.

And we have come so far like that. I mean, the advances on the medication side have been enormous, and the advances on the human side have been enormous. But we still have this stigma to get rid of, and then we really will be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Development comes from within. Nature does not hurry but advances slowly.

Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!

Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.

There have been advances in the technology of beauty that I think are great. & you know what? Use it.

Mankind advances only through struggle.

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

Celebrity doesn't serve me unless it advances the work that I'm doing.

As technology advances, the rendering time remains constant.

Without advances, medicine regresses and reverts to witchcraft.

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Education ought to be affordable for everybody. That only advances a society.

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle.

Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.

As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.

The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic but technological-technologies that flowed directly from advances in basic science. Clearly, no scientist better represents those advances than Albert Einstein: TIME's Person of the Century.

When I contemplate the immense advances in science and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my life, I look forward with confidence to equal advances by the present generation, and have no doubt they will consequently be as much wiser than we have been as we than our fathers were, and they than the burners of witches.

As technology progresses, and as it advances, many of us assume that these advances make us more intelligent, make us smarter and more connected to the world. And what I'd like to argue is that that's not necessarily the case, as 'progress' is simply a word for change, and with change you gain something, but you also lose something.

That saint who advances on his knees never retreats.

With advances in technology come new in-demand career paths.

This has increased with the tremendous technological advances in communications. We have a vast new world of images brought into our sitting rooms electronically. Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. This has increased with the tremendous technological advances in communications. We have a vast new world of images brought into our sitting-rooms electronically.

I don't take advances for my books.

There is nothing wrong with a woman encouraging a man's advances, as long as they are in cash.

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.

The Internet is one of the biggest advances ever in our world.

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

There is nothing wrong with a woman welcoming all men's advances as long as they are in cash

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire of discovering the solution of problems which were of a highly practical kind in mathematical science, so in physical science many of the greatest advances that have been made from the beginning of the world to the present time have been made in the earnest desire to turn the knowledge of the properties of matter to some purpose useful to mankind.

Most great advances have been a collaboration. That is the joy of science for me.

Men are much more agressive with their advances.

Congress should... at least keep pace with technological advances.