Agriculture Quote by Milton Friedman

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