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Men Quotes by Rene Dubos
- Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
- There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the…
- Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.
- Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations, yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively.
- Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population…
- It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.
- Biologically, man is still the great amateur of the animal kingdom; he is unique in his lack of anatomical and physiological specialization.
- Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts…
- Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become for him symbols…
- Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the…
- ... men as a rule are more preoccupied with the dangers that threaten their life than interested in the biological forces on which they depend…
- As long as mankind is made up of independent individuals with free will, there cannot be any social status quo. Men will develop new urges,…
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