#advances

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#almost #civilization #declines #necessarily #poetry

It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges. ↗

— Abbe Pierre

#atrocities #crises #cultural #exchanges #humanity

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing. ↗

— Erica Jong

#bankrupt #book #disappearing #down #effectively

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. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#back #backwards #beginning #beings #bored

I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; because, when once known, we accommodate ourselves to them, and find practical means of correcting their ill effects. But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#change #constitution #imperfections #laws #progress

Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail. ↗

— Joseph Murray

#any #blanket #control #doomed #effort

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

#age #because #deranged #doing #faintest

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. ↗

— Marilyn Ferguson

#important #incremental #intuitions #nature #new

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email! ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#advances #ago #century #communication #email

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#degraded #humanity #more