In externals we advance with lightening express speed in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement all success all achievement in real life grows.

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development it's love - that one principle.

Then I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So then I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us the way we moved next door to the American Indians.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming mass manufacturing things like that. The problem is our society is not organized around doing that.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which at the same time assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.