Technology Quotes

The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.

E = MC^2: Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.

Albert Einstein

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science and about the things that were known before science came.

A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

Alfred North Whitehead

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.

Buckminster Fuller

Medieval Technology? The Middle Ages invented among other things the crank the horse collar eyeglasses the flying buttress the stirrup the windmill the wheelbarrow printing firearms paper the canal lock the compass the rudder the mechanical clock the spinning wheel and the treadle.

Joseph and Frances Gies

The best defence against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off.

The British Army Journal

A few observations and much reasoning lead to error many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

Sir Humphrey Davy

Basic research is when I'm doing what I don't know what I'm doing.

Wernher von Braun

Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every preconceived notion follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads or you shall learn nothing.

If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

It is the theory which decided what can be observed.

Albert Einstein

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

Marshall McLuhan

Whenever science makes a discovery the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for and is therefore right in postulating may be enveloped in a wider order on which she has no claim at all.

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

Albert Einstein

Though many have tried no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science which can do so much cannot decide what it ought to do.

Joseph Wood Krutch

It may be bizarre but in my opinion science offers a sure path to God and religion.

As both the Mercury and Apollo programs have shown our science and technology are so powerful that if an intense effort is made we can do almost anything we want in say ten years - provided we are not in conflict with the laws of nature.

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

Research is to see what everybody has seen and to think what nobody else has thought.

Albert Szent-Györgyi

No scientific theory achieves public acceptance until it has been thoroughly discredited.

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

Paul R. Ehrlich

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems except the things in the world that just don't add up.

The World would be a safer place If someone had a plan Before exploring Outer Space To find the Inner Man.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Albert Einstein

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right

Albert Einstein

There is more than a mere suspicion that the scientist who comes to ask metaphysical questions and turns away from metaphysical answers may be afraid of those answers.

Gregory Zilboorg

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again.

Electric clocks reveal to you Precisely when your fuses blew.

I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wise crack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

If all the arts aspire to the condition of music all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

George Santayana

If the human race wants to go to Hell in a basket technology can help it get there by jet.

Charles M. Allen

In science all facts no matter how trivial or banal enjoy democratic equality.

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

Light is the ultimate messenger of the universe.

BBC World Service

Most science is only high falutin' nature studies.

Stephen Strauss

My advice is to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Martin Friedman

Reason observation and experience - the Holy Trinity of Science.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house.

Henri Poincaré

Science without religion is lame religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen - Science is what scientists do.

Dennis Flanagan

Technology - the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

J. K. Galbraith

All science is either Physics or stamp-collecting.

As far as the laws of Mathematics refer to reality they are not certain and as far as they are certain they do not refer to reality.

Albert Einstein

He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.

H.G.Wells

if it works it's obsolete

Marshall McLuhan

I've heard it said that technology makes a good person better, and it makes a bad person worse. That's okay with me. I say we keep building new versions of ourselves, keep exploring the unknown, and keep growing. We're gonna be fine. Different, but fine.

Daniel H. Wilson

When you stand inside somebody's library, you get a powerful sense of who they are, and not just who they are now but who they've been. . . . It's a wonderful thing to have in a house. It's something I worry is endangered by the rise of the e-book. When you turn off an e-book, there's no map. All that's left behind is a chunk of gray plastic. ~ Lev Grossman

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