Civilization Quote by Robert Andrews Millikan Download Open image “Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.” — Robert Andrews Millikan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Culture Nature of man Refinement
Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic,… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political , legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers on its… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Just how we fit into the plans of the Great Architect and how much he has assigned us to do we do not know,… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom. The glib supposition of utilizing atomic energy when our coal has… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
One of the chief inhibitions to human progress arises because of the extreme slowness with which the advances in knowledge become translated into action… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the two fields for slight… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do. — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
There is no likelihood that man can ever tap the power of the atom — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist. — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
We have been forced to admit for the first time in history not only the possibility of the fact of the growth and decay… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the two most… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and the processes… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
