Civilization Quote by Pliny the Elder

Paper is at the center of so many of the elements of the development of civilization.

— Mark Kurlansky

Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And…

— Jack McDevitt

It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces.

— Frank Herbert

Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.

— Albert Einstein

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

— Carl Sagan

In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.

— Henry Ward Beecher

All the things paper-thin and paper-frail, and all the people too.

— John Green

Use of paper has continued to soar. It is as though paper is taking its revenge on the futurists - not that any futurist…

— Edward Tenner

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

— Nina Fedoroff

Paper has more patience than people.

— Anne Frank

Paper is more patient than man.

— Anne Frank