Men are much more agressive with their advances.
Mankind advances only through struggle.
We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.
As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
There have been advances in the technology of beauty that I think are great. & you know what? Use it.
The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.
Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.
Development comes from within. Nature does not hurry but advances slowly.
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.
The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble.
At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead the way, which happened with the steam engine and some other things, although with energy, the time of adoption is a lot longer than it is with, say, IT products or even medical advances, like drugs and vaccines.
. . . Local prohibitions cannot block advances in military and commercial technology. . . Democratic movements for local restraint can only restrain the world's democracies, not the world as a whole.
Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.
I love the new technology in terms of giving access to doing more independent work. When I first started out, any film had to rent from Panavision and the expenses were humongous. Now, given the advances in technology, you can put out extraordinary quality filmmaking at nothing like the price it used to be.
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.
There have been enormous advances since 911 to build a very robust set of targeting procedures and watch lists to screen travelers coming to the United States. The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.
Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce.
As society advances the standard of poverty rises.