Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

The reason is that till date in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it so it's part of everyday life.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

I count myself well educated for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half was a born teacher in advance of her own times.

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.

Indeed the whole human species is endangered by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce.