Advancement Quotes - Page 2

• That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Men, Knaves, Reputation

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• As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Friendship, United States, Mexico

  Chester A. Arthur (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.

  Xi Jinping

  Years, Chinese, Development

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• The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating to you the expediency of giving effectual encouragement as well to the introduction of new and useful inventions from abroad, as to the exertions of skill and genius in producing them at home.

  George Washington

  Encouragement, Home, Mean

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.9

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• Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a slave, while Elizabeth offered Mary the loyal, steadfast friendship she craved but had always found so elusive.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Opportunity, Years, Loyal

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• Could an android listen to the whining, requests for advancement, and entreaties for guidance and affection that pour from subordinates? Sure it could. Frankly, all that would be easier on the robot than it is on me.

  Stanley Bing

  Robots, Would Be, Androids

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• Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.

  Elon Musk

  Technology, Government, Research

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

  The Advancement of Learning bk. 1, ch. 5, sec. 8 (1605)

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• Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.

  Henry Latham Doherty

  World, Demand

  Henry Latham Doherty (1923). “Principles and ideas for Doherty men: papers, addresses and letters”

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• One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

  Charles Darwin

  Law, Origin Of Species, Natural Selection

  Charles Darwin, James T. Costa (2009). “The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species”, p.244, Harvard University Press

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• In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.

  Katherine Boo

  Country, Mean, Corruption

  "The whorl of poverty". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com. May 18, 2012.

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• There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.

  Seth MacFarlane

  People, Vocal

  "Hungover with Seth MacFarlane". Interview with Stacey Grenrock Woods, www.esquire.com. August 18, 2009.

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• The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction, and trained logic, either of common language or of mathematics, are important adjuncts.

  Joseph Henry

  Science, Common Sense, Imagination

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• We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While many a general reader-that is, the lay reader located outside the domain of science and scholarship-may regard the lowly footnote or the remote endnote or the bibliographic parenthesis as a dispensable nuisance, it can be argued that these are in truth central to the incentive system and an underlying sense of distributive justice that do much to energize the advancement of knowledge.

  Robert K. Merton

  Learning, Knowledge, Science

  Robert K. Merton, Piotr Sztompka (1996). “On Social Structure and Science”, p.333, University of Chicago Press

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• In my opinion the separation of the c- and ac-stars is the most important advancement in stellar classification since the trials by Vogel and Secchi ... To neglect the c-properties in classifying stellar spectra, I think, is nearly the same thing as if a zoologist, who has detected the deciding differences between a whale and a fish, would continue classifying them together.

  Ejnar Hertzsprung

  Stars, Science, Thinking

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• [Young] was afterwards accustomed to say, that at no period of his life was he particularly fond of repeating experiments, or even of very frequently attempting to originate new ones; considering that, however necessary to the advancement of science, they demanded a great sacrifice of time, and that when the fact was once established, that time was better employed in considering the purposes to which it might be applied, or the principles which it might tend to elucidate.

  Hudson Gurney

  Life, Sacrifice, Science

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• We should misjudge this scientist [Fritz Haber] seriously if we were to judge him only by his harvest. The stimulation of research and the advancement of younger scholars become ever more important to him than his own achievements.

  Richard Willstatter

  Science, Judging, Achievement

  Richard Willstätter (1965). “From My Life”

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• No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought.

  William S. Burroughs

  Organization, Needs, Body

  William S. Burroughs (1973). “Ali's smile”, Expanded Media

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• Qatar is giving 2.8% of our GDP to research. This is something again that is a breakthrough, as nobody was even thinking of research as a tool or component for advancement in this part of the world.

  Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned

  Thinking, Qatar, Gdp

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• No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.

  Lyman Beecher

  Science, Controversial Topics, Achievement

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 162, 1895.

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• The Communist Manifesto was correct but we see the privileges of the capitalist bourgeoisie yielding to democratic organizations. In my judgment success lies in a steady [peaceful] advance [rather] than in a catastrophic crash.

  Eduard Bernstein

  Success, Peace, Lying

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• Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have put on the brake instead of the acceleration. All real progress in spiritual things comes gently, imperceptibly, and is the work of God. Our crude efforts spoil it. Know yourself for the childish, limited and dependent soul you are. Remember that the only growth which matters happens without our knowledge and that trying to stretch ourselves is both dangerous and silly. Think of the Infinite Goodness, never of your own state.

  Evelyn Underhill

  God, Christian, Spiritual

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• I have been asked whether I would agree that the tragedy of the scientist is that he is able to bring about great advances in our knowledge, which mankind may then proceed to use for purposes of destruction. My answer is that this is not the tragedy of the scientist; it is the tragedy of mankind.

  Leo Szilard

  Knowledge, Science, Tragedy

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• Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

  Percival Lowell

  Learning, Science, Aquariums

  Percival Lowell (1903). “The Solar System: Six Lectures Delivered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in December, 1902”

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• Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.

  Christopher Bond

  Jobs, Technology, Agriculture

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