Quotes About Development

Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters.

Childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child

Education isn't something you can finish.

Victories over ingrained patterns of thought are not won in a day or a year.

you can't just move backward. You can't push the chicken back into the egg, wine back into the grape, the boy back into the womb. If you want the baby to let go of your watch, you don't just try to explain that he ought to do it—you offer him something he would rather have.

Of such things, petty annoyance and aimless thrusts, is history made.

He never created a finish product. Finished products are for decadent minds. His was an evolving mechanism and the Second Foundation was the instrument of that evolution.

Any technological advance can be dangerous. Fire was dangerous from the start, and so (even more so) was speech—and both are still dangerous to this day—but human beings would not be human without them.

It was a sign of decaying culture, of course, that dams had been built against the further development of ideas.

You are never too old to learn more than you already know and to become able to do more than you already can.

Science is constructed out of approximations that gradually approach the truth

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Originalmente el lenguaje fue el medio por el cual el hombre aprendió, de forma imperfecta, a transmitir las ideas y emociones de su mente. Estableciendo arbitrarios sonidos y combinaciones de los mismos que representasen ciertos matices mentales, desarrolló un método de comunicación, método que con su torpeza y falta de adecuación hizo degenerar toda la delicadeza de la mente en roscas señales guturales.

You are now too old to be made a scholar after my fashion, but you are never too old to learn more than you already know and to become able to do more than you already can.

our safest bet is that the era of high-technology communication, in the beginning of which we are now immersed, will continue to develop and amplify. We may look forward to more numerous and more versatile communications satellites, laser beams replacing microwaves in space and providing millions of times as many audio and video channels, optical fibers carrying light replacing copper wires carrying electricity, and elaborate computerization making the world more responsive to our needs.

There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man's mastery over the environment.

Los tiempos hacen al hombre

The times make the man

Sentimentele pe care le ai sunt, desigur, rezultatul evolu?iei tale ?i nu trebuie condamnate spuse Primul Vorbitor. Trebuie doar schimbate.

That's another trouble with education as we now have it. People think of education as something that they can finish.

The primary reason for the development of trade and traders was to introduce and spread this religion more quickly, and to insure that the introduction of new techniques and a new economy would be subject to our thorough and intimate control.

Through the development of the mathematics necessary to understand the facts of neural physiology and the electrochemistry of the nervous system, which themselves had to be, had to be, traced down to nuclear forces, it first became possible to truly develop psychology.

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I know this much: species evolve only to meet the pressures of new environments. In a stable environment, a species may remain unchanged for millions of Centuries. Primitive man evolved rapidly because his environment was a harsh and changing one. Once, however, mankind learned to create his own environment, he created a pleasant and stable one, so he just naturally stopped evolving.