Civilization Quote by Cordell Hull

I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in…

— Joseph Rotblat

Science and technology have been embarrassed by two world wars, many smaller ones, and the spread of weapons that could destroy humanity. As a…

— Thomas Keating

Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.

— William H. Calvin

“We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost…

— Carl Sagan

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

— Pete Seeger

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

— Abdelaziz Bouteflika

The only thing not worth destroying is science. That would be useless. Science is unchangeable, and if you destroyed it today, it would rise…

— Leonid Andreyev

Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.

— David Mitchell

“To effectively contain a civilization’s development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science.”…

— Liu Cixin

We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and…

— Charles Lindbergh

Humankind has the science and technology to destroy itself or to provide prosperity for all. But while science offers us these opportunities, science will…

— Margaret Beckett