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Philosophical literature2 quotes
The Great Society created by steam and electricity may be a society, but it is no community. — John Dewey · 1927Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. — Aldous Huxley · 1937Science fiction2 quotes
Only a free society... Can produce the technology that makes tyranny possible. — John Keith Laumer · 1967Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should. — Malcolm · 1993Action1 quote
Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should. — Malcolm · 1993Action (film)1 quote
Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should. — Malcolm · 1993Autobiography and memoir1 quote
All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres. — Henry Adams · 1907Economic literature1 quote
Improvements succeeded each other so rapidly, that machines which had never been finished were abandoned in the hands of their makers, because new improvements had superseded their utility. — Charles Babbage · 1832Historical literature1 quote
For over against the convenience of instantaneous communication is the fact that the great economical abstractions of writing, reading, and drawing, the media of reflective thought and deliberate action, will be weakened. — Lewis Mumford · 1934Political literature1 quote
The Great Society created by steam and electricity may be a society, but it is no community. — John Dewey · 1927Political speech1 quote
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. — Omar Bradley · 1948Science fiction (film)1 quote
Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should. — Malcolm · 1993