Discovering Quote by Gregory Bateson

We are developing things that could go wrong in a profound way

— Seán O'Heigeartaigh

In our universal experience unintelligent material processes do not create life

— Philip Johnson

“Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.”

— H.L. Mencken

“Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous.”

— James Rozoff

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden cause of things

— Johannes Kepler

The greatest existential risks over the coming decades or century arise from certain, anticipated technological breakthroughs that we might make in particular, machine super…

— Nick Bostrom

“Yet despite the most powerful technologies we have today, all life forms we know of remain fundamentally limited by their biological hardware.”

— Max Tegmark

We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In science, you can say things that seem crazy, but in the long run, they can turn out to be right. We can get…

— Geoffrey Hinton

Technology is Darwinian. It spreads. It evolves. It adapts. The most dangerous wipes out the less fit.

— Nancy Kress

The scientific world is to be less threatening than was feared. It is to made safe for human beings. And the way to make…

— Simon Blackburn

“a peek-a-boo world, where now this event, now that, pops into view for a moment, then vanishes again. It is an improbable world. It…

— Neil Postman