#vance

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired. ↗

— William Falconer

#acquiring #advance #any #attained #degree

It is just not enough to strengthen the secret services for the fight against terrorism but it's also necessary to advance dialogue between cultures. ↗

— Horst Koehler

#against #also #between #cultures #dialogue

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#body #instinctively #knows #less #medicine

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#back #come #continually #contrivance #deal

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 more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#degraded #humanity #more

Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology. ↗

— Serge Haroche

#atomic #clock #come #computer #contraction

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not. ↗

— William James

#beneficial #copy #guide #interaction #occur

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#advanced age #age #even #fair #few

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#better #chance #commonly #company #contrivance