Allowed Quote by Stanley A. McChrystal

“Though time management seems a problem as old as time itself, the science of scheduling began in the machine shops of the industrial revolution.…

— Brian Christian

We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could…

— Neil Postman

“It is too easy to think that ‘science’ is what happens now, that modernity and scientific thought are inseparable. Yet as Laura Snyder so…

— Judith Flanders

“Science, industry and military technology intertwined only with the advent of the capitalist system and the Industrial Revolution. Once this relationship was established, however,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the…

— Norman Lockyer

Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission…

— Edward Teller

The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy.

— Joe Harris

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Alfred North Whitehead summed it up best when he remarked that the greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the idea of invention itself.…

— Neil Postman

The industrial leader of the 20th century was a system-builder. He was a visionary in terms of what could be built; got the capital…

— Robert Reich

The industrial revolution that defined the first half of the 20 century marked the start of modern business, typified by high-volume, large-scale organizations. Mechanization…

— Steven Sinofsky