Affluence Quote by Louis O. Kelso

“The point is this: When seen through the lens of technology, few resources are truly scarce; they’re mainly inaccessible. Yet the threat of scarcity…

— Peter H. Diamandis

“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

All of our current environmental problems are unanticipated harmful consequences of our existing technology. There is no basis for believing that technology will miraculously…

— Jared Diamond

It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition,…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“I know that the consequences of scientific illiteracy are far more dangerous in our time than in any that has come before. It’s perilous…

— Carl Sagan

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

With the observable fact that scientific knowledge makes our lives better when applied with concern for human welfare and environmental protection, there is no…

— Jacque Fresco

Some recent occurrences such as the BSE disaster and even perhaps - dare I mention it - the present severe weather conditions in our…

— Prince Charles

If science has a lot to do with what works, then clearly there's much about today's social and economic setup that isn't scientific, because…

— Jacque Fresco

Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the Earth's capacity…

— George Monbiot

If we don't concentrate on resurrecting science, we're not going to be able to compete in a global economy.

— Alice Roberts

Making two possibilities a reality. Predicting the future of things we all know. Fighting off the diseased programming Of centuries, centuries, centuries, centuries. Science…

— Serj Tankian