Jacques Barzun Quote

Something pervasive that makes the difference, not between civilized man and the savage, not between man and the animals, but between man and the robot, grows numb, ossifies and falls away like black mortified flesh when techne assails the senses and science dominates the mind.

In: Theodosius Dobzhansky, The Biology of Ultimate Concern, Chapter 5 (p. 103), The New American Library, Inc. 1967