Mean Quote by Paul Tillich

Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led…

— Fritjof Capra

In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about…

— Isaac Asimov

You see, control can never be a means to any practical end...It can never be a means to anything but more control...like junk..

— William S. Burroughs

Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand all their…

— Norbert Elias

Safety is a basic human need. People with a sense of security and belonging are stabilized for learning, creating, innovating. A group of wonderfully…

— John Sweeney

With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we…

— Claude Bernard

“Control or be controlled is a mantra that offers a solution to external techniques aimed at modifying behaviour.”

— Steven Redhead

Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition…

— Lewis Mumford

The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that…

— Rachel Carson

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before…

— Albert Einstein

The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, . . . when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of…

— Rachel Carson

“The question that drives safety work in a just culture is not who is responsible for failure, rather, it asks what is responsible for…

— Sidney Dekker