Science Quotes by Marshall McLuhan

13 Science quotes by Marshall McLuhan

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Marshall McLuhan’s reflections on science pack a punch despite the modest tally. Each line hints at his belief that technology reshapes perception, making this a handy primer for anyone curious about his media‑centric worldview.

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People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.

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Technology is that which separates us from our environment.

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All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.

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Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws.

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Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.

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Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

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The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.

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Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones

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The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their…

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The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.

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The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.

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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 ...…

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The answers are always inside the problem, not outside.

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Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.

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Electronic man has no physical body.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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