The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness [all-at-once-ness]. 'Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village ...… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“The constant broadcast and reception of ghostly images via radio and television, according to this notion, had weakened the sense, particularly among youth, of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti-environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral)… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
![“Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness [all-at-once-ness]. 'Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village ... a simultaneous happening. ... The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.” quote by Marshall McLuhan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e31/marshall-mcluhan-641_brand-new_ours-is-a-brand-new-world-of-allatoncene_3079016.jpg)
