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Downsides of progress8 quotes
All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres. — Henry Adams · 1907We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854As civilisation advances, poetry almost necessarily declines... In proportion as men know more and think more, they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems. — Thomas Babington Macaulay · 1825We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. — Mark Twain · 1880We have been proud of our industrial achievements, but we have not hitherto stopped thoughtfully enough to count the human cost, the cost of lives snuffed out, of energies overtaxed and broken, the fearful physical and spiritual cost to the men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through. — Woodrow Wilson · 1913There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to succeed and be great. Our thought has been "Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself," while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves. — Woodrow Wilson · 1913All 8 quotes →Disenchanted world2 quotes
All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres. — Henry Adams · 1907We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. — Mark Twain · 1880Economic development2 quotes
We have been proud of our industrial achievements, but we have not hitherto stopped thoughtfully enough to count the human cost, the cost of lives snuffed out, of energies overtaxed and broken, the fearful physical and spiritual cost to the men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through. — Woodrow Wilson · 1913There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to succeed and be great. Our thought has been "Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself," while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves. — Woodrow Wilson · 1913Technological progress2 quotes
All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres. — Henry Adams · 1907Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should. — Malcolm · 1993American power1 quote
We have been proud of our industrial achievements, but we have not hitherto stopped thoughtfully enough to count the human cost, the cost of lives snuffed out, of energies overtaxed and broken, the fearful physical and spiritual cost to the men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through. — Woodrow Wilson · 1913Poetry1 quote
As civilisation advances, poetry almost necessarily declines... In proportion as men know more and think more, they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems. — Thomas Babington Macaulay · 1825Progress1 quote
It's ironic... That we've come all this way, we made all this progress, but you know, we lost the little things, the niceties. — Elaine Benes · 1992Rainbows1 quote
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. — Mark Twain · 1880Science1 quote
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. — Mark Twain · 1880Wonder1 quote
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. — Mark Twain · 1880