Billions Quote by C. S. Lewis

“Man’s conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men over billions…

— C.S. Lewis

This notion that man can, and should, have absolute dominion over the "chaotic" powers of nature and woman...is what ultimately lies behind man's famous…

— Riane Eisler

Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

— C. S. Lewis

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

— Hans Christian Andersen

Man must conquer nature.

— Mao Zedong

When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of a child…

— Albert Einstein

This dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass…

— Jane Addams

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its…

— C. S. Lewis

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature…

— Rachel Carson

With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we…

— Claude Bernard

We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a…

— Rachel Carson

The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very…

— Richard Owen