Community Quote by Nancy Roman Download Open image “We live in a technical society.” — Nancy Roman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community Live Society Technical
We live in a technocratic culture. We worship at the altar of technology. Our lives are increasingly shaped by the machinations of the techies.… — David Roochnik Copy Share Image
The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
Technology is a ubiquitous part of our everyday lives, and the accompanying geeky lexicon has infiltrated every facet of our modern day society. — Kimberly Bryant Copy Share Image
The more the society becomes a technological society, the less it has to hold itself together. — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Our technologised society is becoming opaque. As technology becomes more ubiquitous and our relationship with digital devices ever more seamless, our technical infrastructure seems… — Honor Harger Copy Share Image
We work in an industry where people invent technology to avoid what we create. — David Droga Copy Share Image
The tech industry has a strong bias towards technical solutions to social problems. — Brianna Wu Copy Share Image
I started out, as most astronomers do, with a university job. But in my generation, women weren't very welcome at universities, and so I… — Nancy Roman Copy Share Image
I do not remember exactly when I became interested in astronomy, but I know it was at a very young age. I did organize… — Nancy Roman Copy Share Image
In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the… — Nancy Roman Copy Share Image
Just as the lunar landings inspired many young people to consider careers in space and related fields, the solution of the challenging instrumentation problems… — Nancy Roman Copy Share Image
You cannot exploit the advantages of getting above the atmosphere unless you are able to get up there reasonably large-sized telescopes and unless you… — Nancy Roman Copy Share Image
I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of… — Nancy Roman Copy Share Image
I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get… — Nancy Roman Copy Share Image
I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't. — Nancy Roman Copy Share Image
Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an… — Nancy Roman Copy Share Image
All of the stars rotate, have orbits around the center of the galaxy, and most of them go around the center of the galaxy… — Nancy Roman Copy Share Image
I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university. — Nancy Roman Copy Share Image
One of the primary ways that astronomers study stars is to spread their light out into a rainbow, which we call a spectrum, and… — Nancy Roman Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image