Quotes about Advancement
I feel like I'm wasting time if I repeat myself.
— Heath Ledger
Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.
— Bill Gates
It's easier to add things on to a PC than it's ever been before. It's one click, and boom, it comes down.
— Bill Gates
Higher stages always empathetically include the lower, or they are not higher stages!
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Three steps forward, two steps back.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward.
— William Carey
Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.
— William Wilberforce
It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.
— Stephen Hawking
The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the marvellous possibilities that it has opened up for mankind and for the progress in humanity that has been granted to us.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.
— Richard Paul Evans
To make it really clear and simple, let's call this movement across history we see in passages like the ones we just looked at from Exodus and Deuteronomy clicks. What we see is God meeting people at the click they're at, and then drawing them forward. When they're at F, God calls them to G. When we're at L, God calls us to M. And if we're way back there at A, God meets us way back there at A and does what God always does: invites us forward to B.
— Rob Bell
No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.
— Lyman Beecher