On Science and Technology
There is more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and abstinence
from meat.
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—Anton Chekhov, 1894
Those [changes in history] that have proved permanent—the ones that affected every facet
of life and made certain that mankind could never go back again—were always brought
about by science and technology.
—Isaac Asimov, 1980
The scientist and engineer have built the modern world, and they hold the key to its control
and coordination.
—Benjamin C. Gruenberg, 1935
The lack of ideas and inventions in one generation can easily mean the loss of freedom in
the next.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1955
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the
languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
—J. G. Ballard, 1984
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly
anyone knows anything about science and technology.
—Carl Sagan, 1989
History without the history of science […] resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his
eye.
—I. Bernard Cohen, 1952
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This is a reference to Leo Tolstoy’s moral teachings that were very popular in Russia of that time.
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There is more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and abstinence
from meat.
1
—Anton Chekhov, 1894
Those [changes in history] that have proved permanent—the ones that affected every facet
of life and made certain that mankind could never go back again—were always brought
about by science and technology.
—Isaac Asimov, 1980
The scientist and engineer have built the modern world, and they hold the key to its control
and coordination.
—Benjamin C. Gruenberg, 1935
The lack of ideas and inventions in one generation can easily mean the loss of freedom in
the next.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1955
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the
languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
—J. G. Ballard, 1984
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly
anyone knows anything about science and technology.
—Carl Sagan, 1989
History without the history of science […] resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his
eye.
—I. Bernard Cohen, 1952
***
1
This is a reference to Leo Tolstoy’s moral teachings that were very popular in Russia of that time.
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
K. K. Likharev (ed.), Essential Quotes for Scientists and Engineers,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63332-5_4
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