Quotes with advances

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  • Abraham Pais Progress leads to confusion leads to progress and on and on without respite. Every one of the many major advances - created sooner or later, more often sooner, new problems. These confusions, never twice the same, are not to be deplored. Rather, those who participate experience them as a privilege.
    Source: Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988)
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Aldous Huxley Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Earl Warren The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
    Earl Warren
    American jurist and politician (1891 - 1974)
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  • Albert Einstein The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The human family is at a critical juncture. The world is moving through a great transition. This transition is economic, as the digital revolution advances and as new powers and groups emerge.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • I Ching The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both
    I Ching
    Chinese classical text (Book of Changes)
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  • Alexander Haig The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people.
    Alexander Haig
    American politician (1924 - 2010)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bill Maris When you apply computer science and machine learning to areas that haven't had any innovation in 50 years, you can make rapid advances that seem really incredible.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Oscar Wilde Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bob Cousy You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life.
    Bob Cousy
    American basketball player (1928 - )
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  • Walker Percy You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
    Walker Percy
     
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