Adjustment Quote by Ralph Linton

“[The] tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic, and political patterns...We…

— Ralph Linton

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an…

— Jacques Ellul

More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a society would…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“As long as the incomes of the various classes of contemporary society remain beyond the reach of scientific inquiry, there can be no hope…

— Thomas Piketty

Modern science and technology can relieve men of the necessity for specialized, imbecile labor. They may, in principle, provide the basis for a rational…

— Noam Chomsky

But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation…

— Arthur Balfour

“In this setting modern modern science tends increasingly to become one of two things: either a high form of technology, often with a goal…

— Francis A. Schaeffer

Modern science is a catalyst agent to fulfil the needs of humankind. We must ensure that it reaches to poorest of the poor.

— Narendra Modi

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to…

— Henrik Ibsen

Societies will, of course, wish to exercise prudence in deciding which technologies that is, which applications of science are to be pursued and which…

— Carl Sagan

[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“New technology has never been an automatic feature of history. Our ancestors lived in static, zero-sum societies where success meant seizing things from others.”

— Peter Thiel