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Advancement Quotes - Page 2

There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.

There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.

"Hungover with Seth MacFarlane". Interview with Stacey Grenrock Woods, www.esquire.com. August 18, 2009.

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.70, Cambridge University Press

One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

Charles Darwin, James T. Costa (2009). “The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species”, p.244, Harvard University Press

The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.

William Bligh (1792). “A Voyage to the South Sea Undertaken by Command of His Majesty: For the Purpose of Conveying the Bread-fruit Tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty's Ship the Bounty, Commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an Account of the Mutiny on Board the Said Ship, and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, in the Ship's Boat, from Tofoa, One of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies ...”, p.3

In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.

"The whorl of poverty". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com. May 18, 2012.

Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.

Henry Latham Doherty (1923). “Principles and ideas for Doherty men: papers, addresses and letters”