"Because the newer methods of treatment are..." - Quote by Confucius
Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today.
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More on Progress
“Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.”
“The advance and perfecting of mathematics are closely joined to the prosperity of the nation.”
“For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those mostremote from it?”
More on History
“There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.”
“The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.”
“Christopher Columbus was looking for a passage to India, but he landed in America. He landed in the wrong place, and when he got back, he wasn't sure where he'd been. But most important of all, he did it on someone else's money.”