Age Quote by Lord Byron

Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing…

— Terry Pratchett

This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey Davy's lantern,…

— Lord Byron

Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!

— Max Frisch

We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways…

— Ernest Istook

Nothing is more patent, indeed, than the fact that charity merely converts the unfit - who, in the course of nature, would soon die…

— Henry Louis Mencken

“Rhedi: I am always afraid that they will eventually succeed in discovering some secret which will provide a quicker way of making men die,…

— Montesquieu

Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.

— Scott Adams

I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.

— Steve Jobs

There are some people that are trying to cure death, this tech immortality... That seems mentally ill.

— Phil Elverum

Have you ever noticed that things that don’t kill you make you weaker? And great minds don’t think alike. If they did, the patent…

— Scott Adams

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing…

— Christiaan Barnard

The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.

— Thomas Jefferson