Advantage Quote by Richard Jefferies

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end,…

— Henry David Thoreau

In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the…

— Louis Pasteur

“What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid…

— Julian Barnes

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

— George Bernard Shaw

For a brief time in the 1850s, the telegraph companies of England and the United States thought that they could (and should) preserve every…

— James Gleick

Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper.

— Anonymous

If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is…

— Albert Einstein

If you want to do evil, science provides the most powerful weapons to do evil; but equally, if you want to do good, science…

— Richard Dawkins

Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to…

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point…

— Julian Barnes

Some people are born to trains, and some have trains thrust upon them. Fortunately, I can be included in this latter category.

— Michael Portillo