The great advances of civilization, whether in…

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

— Milton Friedman

The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels or by centralized economic planning. It…

— Milton Friedman

Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.

— Bill Mauldin

It is the business of future to be dangerous… The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Every time a new nation, America or Russia for instance, advances toward civilization, the human race perfects itself; every time an inferior class emerges…

— Madame de Stael

“War created the conditions for great advances in technology...without war men would not traverse oceans in hours, travel in space, or microwave popcorn.”

— Adrian R Lewis

I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

— Sylvia Plath

This [philanthropy] work is even more fascinating. It requires us to think harder about how we build partnerships, who we get behind. And yet…

— Bill Gates

History has shown us that all the great advances have taken place in Spain when we have evolved and adapted to the reality of…

— King Felipe VI

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

— Samuel Johnson

The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines.

— Freeman Dyson

When it comes to taking genes from viruses and bacteria and putting them into plants, people say 'Yuck! Why would scientists do that?' Because…

— Pamela Ronald

The sanctuary would be the epicenter for the foundation. We'll have think tanks there. It's going to be a really, really amazing place. As…

— Ian Somerhalder

The Nuffield report suggests that there is a moral imperative for investment into GM crop research in developing countries. But the moral imperative is…

— Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher

There is also a marked global trend towards sustainable agriculture, building on traditional methods which use fewer chemical inputs, carefully manage soil and water…

— Helen Clark