Advancement Quotes
228 quotes by 207 authors
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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary…
— Niels Bohr
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Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health…
— Christopher Bond
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization…
— William S. Burroughs
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Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.
— Clarence Clemons
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The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating to you the…
— George Washington
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The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition to this, the Pope is…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career advancement and education, most successful…
— Patrick Lencioni
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A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for…
— Eric Hoffer
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I remember that after that teaching given to me as a young man, as a boy, almost, by the President of the Church. I read…
— Heber J. Grant
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Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear:…
— Algernon Sidney
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Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.
— Humphry Davy
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Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.
— Samuel Johnson
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The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction, and trained logic,…
— Joseph Henry
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It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from…
— Francis Bacon
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We should misjudge this scientist [Fritz Haber] seriously if we were to judge him only by his harvest. The stimulation of research and the advancement…
— Richard Willstatter
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The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting, band-playing,…
— Norman Mailer
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