#advances

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#beauty #does #good #grace #humour

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances. ↗

— Joseph McCabe

#interpreters #nature #other #retreats #rival

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

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. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#destruction #endangered #further #human #human species

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#change #changes #humanity #makes #materially

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

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#apt #become #make #men #them

I don't take advances for my books. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#books #i #take

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#between #connection #develop #fear #made

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated. ↗

— Leon Kass

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