Civilization Quote by Mason Cooley

The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Economics and a reliance on science and technology to solve our problems has led to an unsustainable situation where continued growth in consumption is…

— David Suzuki

I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce…

— Alfred Bester

“The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn’t absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Science and technology have amplified the effects of the dysfunction of the human mind in its unawakened state to such a degree that humanity,…

— Eckhart Tolle

The success of this Government, and thus the success of our Nation, depends in the last analysis upon the quality.of our career services. The…

— John F. Kennedy

No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential. This is especially true of science and technology, where…

— Sheryl Sandberg

patriarchal academic hierarchies in science and technology are now overspecialized and abstract, perhaps because they have systematically excluded women, as well as minorities, with…

— Hazel Henderson

The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.

— Alex Comfort

Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species'…

— E. O. Wilson

Transhumanism literally means "beyond human." It's using science and technology to radically change and improve the human species and experience.

— Zoltan Istvan

Science and technology have been embarrassed by two world wars, many smaller ones, and the spread of weapons that could destroy humanity. As a…

— Thomas Keating

Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate…

— Bill Gates

Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are…

— E. F. Schumacher