Civilization Quote by James Burke Download Open image ““Scientists are the true driving force of civilization.”” — James Burke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Driving force Science Scientists
“Even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy. Yes even science.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“There is a certain hubris to science, a belief that the more we develop technology and the more we learn, the better our lives… — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
“I long for a civilization to develop a level of science literacy, so that we can become better shepherds of our future on this… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“It ain't technology that enhances the civilization.. but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“Science is not a taxi-cab that we can get in and out of whenever we like.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Science is not separate from politics. As much as I would like it to be a pure thing, existing only in some intellectual realm… — Marie Brennan Copy Share Image
“Science, I had come to learn, is as political, competitive, and fierce a career as you can find, full of the temptation to find… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
“Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do something. They never stop to ask if they should… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Science is a long history of learning how not to fool ourselves.” — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
“Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look.” — James Burke Copy Share Image
“All that can accurately be said about a man who thinks he is a poached egg is that he is in the minority.” — James Burke Copy Share Image
“If, as I've said all along, the universe at any time is what you say it is, then say.” — James Burke Copy Share Image
“we in the modern world expect that tomorrow will be better than today.” — James Burke Copy Share Image
“On why 300 years separates the first use of glass lenses in spectacles and their use in a telescope: “In many cases there are… — James Burke Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
