Inventions And Progress Quotes

#1. Is it possible that despite our inventions and progress, despite our culture, religion and knowledge of the world, we have remained on the surface of life?

Rainer Maria Rilke

#2. If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to the inheritance left by our ancestors. If we may make new discoveries and inventions in the phenomenal world, must we declare our bankruptcy in the spiritual domain? Is

Paramahansa Yogananda

#3. The drawings that I show - the drawings that I present to people are finished works in themselves. They're meant to be thought of that way and not necessarily lead to larger pieces or anything like that. And that's the way I work now.

Robert Barry

#4. What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth?

Henry David Thoreau

#5. A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls.

Larry Crabb

#6. Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

John Galsworthy

#7. Listen to me instead of your financial manager: It's okay to spend money, to save it, to give it away, to worry over it. It's just money. Your only enemy in life is time. Do be miser with time: hoard it, treasure it, don't squander a single minute of it.

Cassandra King

#8. How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a slight outrage against universal laws.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. Sometimes to choose and know they are more closely
you have to be away

Ys Sroyer

#10. She craved a tall glass of the fresh-squeezed lemonade from the pitcher she'd left chilling in the fridge. Two glasses served with a generous slice of pound cake with orange glaze icing sounded twice as nice.

Ed Lynskey

#11. I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced.

Ruby Wax

#12. I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.

Martin Freeman

#13. With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.

Levon Helm

#14. The priest I didn't talk to at all, because I didn't want to have to hide his body afterward.

Richard K. Morgan

#15. I stopped dying the moment I started writing

Arnon Grunberg

#16. Contentment is the greatest wealth.

Abhijit Naskar

#17. True saints know that the place where all the joy comes from is far deeper than that of feelings; joy comes from the place of the very presence of God. Joy is God and God is joy and joy doesn't negate all other emotions - joy transcends all other emotions.

Ann Voskamp

#18. Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because the elite makes most of the progress. You should worry about people who produce really novel inventions, not pedantic hacks.

James D. Watson

#19. Inventions have long-since reached their limit
and I see no hope for further developments.
Julius Frontinus, world-famous engineer (Rome, 10 AD)

Julius Frontinus