Advances Quotes

375 Advances quotes by 305 unique authors

Advice for a human 86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference.… — Matt Haig
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent. — Charles Caleb Colton
The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they… — Alfred North Whitehead
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To… — Albert Einstein
The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery. — Erik Erikson
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. — Thomas B. Macaulay
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… — Marilyn Ferguson
Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today. — Edgar Allan Poe
Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of… — George Wald
The seasons, like greater tides, ebb and flow across the continents. Spring advances up the United States at the average rate of about fifteen miles… — Edwin Way Teale
The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly institutions in the… — Francis Fukuyama
We need the humbleness and clarity to see that our food, while benefitting from technological advances, has benefitted even more from free ecological resources: Cheap… — Dan Barber
Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far… — Aubrey de Grey
Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be. — Walt Mossberg
It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily, and never possess… — Saint Ignatius
I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking by themselves in… — Douglas Coupland
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life… — Henry David Thoreau
The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time. — Adam Davidson
The best science frequently combines an awareness of broad and significant problems with focus on an apparently small issue or detail that someone very much… — Lisa Randall

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