Advance Quotes

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The mind cannot foresee its own advance. — Friedrich August von Hayek
No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion. — Wyndham Lewis
Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot.… — John Donne
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy. — Lyman Beecher
I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the… — Alexander Fleming
In your training, do not be in a hurry, for it takes a minimum of ten years to master the basics and advance to the… — Morihei Ueshiba
Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The scientist seeking to… — Milton Friedman
Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the… — Walter Lippmann
It is essential to his happiness that he should continually advance. — Wallace D. Wattles
Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that such… — Michael Faraday
The existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The foot-print in the sand-to refer to his happy illustration-does now… — Hugh Miller
Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinions about, but which they have no knowledge about. Therefore every advance… — Bertrand Russell
Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that the increase of… — Charles Babbage
Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee of… — Lord Kelvin
If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance. — Samuel Johnson
In every section of the entire area where the word science may properly be applied, the limiting factor is a human one. We shall have… — James Bryant Conant
I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways… — Christiaan Barnard
In point of fact, no conclusive disproof of a theory can ever be produced; for it is always possible to say that the experimental results… — Karl Popper
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter of course because… — John Dewey
Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics of the future… — Paul Dirac

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