Able Quote by Leo Szilard

The tragedy, the true catastrophe, is that humanity continues

— Louis Wolfson

I think the greatest tragedy of mankind is that people have ideas and opinions in their heads but don't have a process for properly…

— Ray Dalio

“Is the destruction not, rather, irrefutable proof that the catastrophes which develop, so to speak, in our hands and seem to break out suddenly…

— W.G. Sebald

“Science and industry have in less than fifty years developed man's power of destruction to an extent which makes comparison with the past futile.”

— Frederick Maurice

“We have designed our civilization based on science and technology and at the same time arranged things so that almost no one understands anything…

— Carl Sagan

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

— Anonymous

“We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no…

— Carl Sagan

“One hundred and fifty years of science have proved more explosive than five thousand years of prescientific culture. It would be absurd to suppose…

— Bertrand Russell

Let's just say that if these scientist had been using their brilliance for good instead of evil, cars would run off water vapor and…

— James Patterson

When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished.

— Theodore Roosevelt

We scientists have fantasies of being uniquely qualified to make great discoveries. Alas, reality is cruel: most of us are replaceable. For the vast…

— Jared Diamond

The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive him on…

— Robert Fagles