Civilization Quote by Michio Kaku

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

— Bill Gates

Our dependence on oil and natural gas won't vanish overnight, but America's energy future will shine brighter if we continue to develop wind, solar,…

— Nancy Mace

Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal.

— Julia Gillard

Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil…

— David Goodstein

It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew…

— Francis Bacon

Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine, planets to…

— Vaclav Smil

We're becoming a planet of a thousand new major cities. The economy of the 21st century is a city-building economy. It's within our power…

— Alex Steffen

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

— Cyril Connolly

Is civilization progress? The challenge, I think, is clear; and, as clearly, the final answer will be given not by our amassing of knowledge,…

— Charles Lindbergh

We are not learning to view ourselves as an advanced, evolving civilization. That is what we really must learn to do, in due course,…

— Edgar Mitchell

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.

— Nina Fedoroff

The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it. We cannot…

— Barack Obama