The advancement of the arts from year to year taxes our credulity, and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end.

Henry L. Ellsworth

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Technological progress Progress

Author

Henry L. Ellsworth

Language

English

Time

1843 1840s 19th century

Occupation

Lawyer

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United States

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Ellsworth, Henry L. "Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year." U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1843.

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Tennyson

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Knowledge Wisdom

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Alfred Tennyson
Source
Locksley Hall Poems
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1842 1840s 19th century
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Original Citation

Tennyson, Alfred. "Locksley Hall." Poems. Vol. 2, London: Edward Moxon, 1842, I. 141.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "Locksley Hall." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 141.

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We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.

Bernard of Chartres

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Scientific progress Progress
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Bernard of Chartres

Author

John of Salisbury
Language
Latin
Time
1159 1150s 12th century
Era
Middle Ages
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Citation

Bernard of Chartres. Quoted in The Metalogicon of John of Salisbury, written by John of Salisbury. c. 1159, bk. 3.