The fact that we have been able to perturb the carbon cycle with our industrial revolution is evidence of how vulnerable we… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Keep in mind our Constitution predates the Industrial Revolution. Our founders did not know about electricity, the train, telephones, radio, television, automobiles,… — Ross Perot Copy Share Image
It is essential to ensure that the Fourth Industrial Revolution is a sustainable one for people and planet. It could even drive… — Johan Rockstrom Copy Share Image
“A cross-section of Watt’s steam engine, the machine that heralded the first industrial revolution. The real benefits of the improved steam engine… — Stefan Heck Copy Share Image
“I go back to the union man and say, “Sir, this is a house of God, not a proper place for a… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“I am a citizen of this country,” I declare, “and Mr. Mayor, tonight I will be a citizen of this city when… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
The greenhouse crisis is the bill coming due for the Industrial Revolution. It's not an accident. It's the logical outcome of our… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“What the hell’s the matter with you men? Are you cowards as well as stupid? You boys make me sick. I’m done… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
“Yet, with all his acuteness, it did not occur to him that Europe was not in the least to blame for his… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo sapiens held the record among all organisms for driving the most plant and animal species to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The Republicans did not set out to establish a strong national state or to facilitate the industrial revolution. They believed strongly in… — David R. Goldfield Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of things that aren’t your fault. Or mine, either. Not the fault of prophecies, or curses, or DNA,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“They had all the means to develop a spinning machine, but “nobody tried”—another example of knowledge hampering optionality. They probably needed someone… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Japan had a more radical experience of future shock than any other nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. They were this… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“The Antropocene is usually said to have begun with the industrial revolution, or perhaps even later, with the explosive growth in population… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Our climate is changing. The Earth's climate has, in fact, warmed by 1.1 to 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since the industrial revolution. People… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
We need to develop the new green industrial revolution that develops the new technologies that can confront and overcome the challenge of… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
“Other generations faced big challenges: the Industrial Revolution with its sweeping social and economic changes; abolishing slavery; defeating fascism; establishing civil rights… — John Rogers Copy Share Image
All the big revolutions, whether it's the Industrial Revolution, the Arab Spring, those changes happened by economic and social shifts brought about… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
One thing I found out was that we need extended families. We need gangs. And, of course, if they're tribes and clans… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Every smart person that I admire in the world, and those I semi-fear, is focused on this concept of crypto for a… — Brock Pierce Copy Share Image
“The Industrial Revolution was the culmination of the rise of Western civilization that began in Greece twenty-seven centuries ago. It was the… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
“during the critical juncture created by the Industrial Revolution, many nations missed the boat and failed to take advantage of the spread… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
With the Industrial Revolution, the production of food was delegated to big companies in order for women and men to be in… — Lidia Bastianich Copy Share Image
When I was trying to figure out why lives have improved so much in the last 300 years, where we've gone from… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they… — Barbara Bergmann Copy Share Image
“Brewing is mentioned rarely in accounts of the Industrial Revolution. Temperance pressures meant it was impolitic for brewers to boast of their… — Peter Brown Copy Share Image
“The emergence of China is the most dramatic event in economic history. We are living in an age of convergence no less… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Since the industrial revolution, cities, and especially the inner cities, were the places for the newly arrived. Voluntary immigrants seeking economic betterment,… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It makes sense that we came up with our public school system during the Industrial Revolution because it's like everybody is a… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
“Turning back to the crowd I say, “I am duty bound to make this plea, but I want to say, with all… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“As the international economist Ronald Findlay argues, “slavery was an integral part of a complex intercontinental system of trade in goods and… — Gavin Wright Copy Share Image
“virtually the entire improvement in output per worker in Britain in the first century of the Industrial Revolution was due to improvement… — Edward A. Hudson Copy Share Image
