Affliction Quote by Antoine Lavoisier

The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man will have…

— Benjamin Franklin

Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material things. They…

— Herbert Hoover

Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life…

— Barry Commoner

If we are genuinely concerned about the environment and the fellow human beings, and want to end territorial disputes, war, crime, poverty, hunger, and…

— Jacque Fresco

To reconnect with nature is key if we want to save the planet.

— Jane Goodall

Let's just say that if these scientist had been using their brilliance for good instead of evil, cars would run off water vapor and…

— James Patterson

It is hardly possible to maintain seriously that the evil done by science is not altogether outweighed by the good. For example, if ten…

— Anonymous

The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human devastation of…

— Thomas Berry

People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man…

— Glenn T. Seaborg

If current technological processes continue without change, the environment will change, and we, the human species, will either have to mutate or even die,…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

I just think that this whole issue of creating potential human life, not to give life, but to give the scientists a bit more…

— Tony Abbott

Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global…

— David Suzuki