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

So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers of records and the record company paid advances they rarely recouped.
David Knopfler

Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.
Julie Bishop

Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.
Kevin Kelly

The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.
Laurent Fabius

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
Sun Tzu

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
Milton Friedman

The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.
Henry Hazlitt

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
Gustave Flaubert

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.
Keith Henson

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.
Ibrahim Babangida

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

The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people.
Alexander Haig

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

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
Jean de la Bruyere

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

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

There's a lot more to see when you're playing and because of the advances in technology it makes room for all kinds of new characters.
Tara Strong

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
Isaac Newton