Advancement Quote by Don Young

“War may be the most efficient stimulus of innovation and technological advance,”

— Jack L. Chalker

War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and poverty.

— Oscar Arias

For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at it, although…

— Gwynne Dyer

College was a wonderful time to really explore my interests. I ended up writing my senior thesis about gender inequality in the developing world.

— Lauren Bush

The prosperity of the second half of the twentieth century was both a cause and an effect of social and scientific breakthroughs that have…

— David Bornstein

War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built on cooperation, where our…

— Judith Hand

World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy to get…

— Joseph Stiglitz

My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of…

— Thomas Jefferson

We fight wars from progressively great heights and distances, the blessings of technology steadily removing the personal human element from what was historically an…

— Steven Weber

“today the expense of modern warfare far outweighs any economic benefits it achieves.”

— Ben Carson

No great advancement has ever been kept at bay because of ideology, nor greed. Eventually progress moves us forward.

— Mark Ruffalo

“disrupts socio-technological balance, all scientific advancement due to intelligence overcoming compensating for limitations, can't carry a load so invent wheel, can't catch food so…

— Mordin Solus