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In fact, most people — when they speak of Science as a good thing — have in mind such Technology as has altered the condition of their life.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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If truth is a path, then science explores it, and the brief stops along the way are where technologies begin (they build towns and pave a highway). Technology is results, science is process; though the two fuse and separate and then fuse once more, as ends and means must, their opposition is profound.
Alfred Adler
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The advance of technology, like the growth of population and industry, has also been proceeding exponentially.
Carl Kaysen
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The 1910 Edison film of Frankenstein was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
Kage Baker
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Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.
Barbara Kruger
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It has been remarked that all technology is a Faustian bargain: one obtains conveniences and sometimes luxuries, but in exchange one gets increased potential for catastrophes.
Frank N. von Hippel
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Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information.
Peter Drucker
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The general direction of evolution is to produce a serially imprinting, multibrained creature able to decipher its own program, create the technology to leave the planet and live in post-terrestrial mini-worlds, decode the aging sectors of the DNA code--thus assuring immortality, and act in harmony with stages of evolution to come.
Timothy Leary
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Theory may often delay understanding of new phenomena observed with new technology unless theorists are quite open-minded as to what types of physical laws may need to be applied: conservatism is unsafe...In astrophysics, historically, theories have only seldom had predictive usefulness as guides to experimenters.
Jesse L. Greenstein
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History is not just the evolution of technology; it is the evolution of thought.
James Redfield
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Were I to make the announcement and to run, the reasons I would run is because I have a great belief in this country [America].... There's more natural resources than any nation in the world; the greatest education population in the world; the greatest technology of any country in the world; the greatest capacity for innovation in the world; and the greatest political system in the world.
Ted Kennedy
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Dazed with this brightness of our technology, I wonder if some are not inclined to forget that the most important instrument in science must always be the mind of man.
Frank Edwin Egler
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If you find yourself concentrating on the technology rather than the sociology, you're like the vaudeville character who loses his keys on a dark street and looks for them on the adjacent street because, as he explains, "The light is better there."
Tom DeMarco
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If you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.
Hortense Calisher
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Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes.
Kevin Kelly (editor)
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If truth is a path, then science explores it, and the brief stops along the way are where technologies begin (they build towns and pave a highway). Technology is results, science is process; though the two fuse and separate and then fuse once more, as ends and means must, their opposition is profound.
George Otis Smith
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Science can reveal the depth of this [political] crisis, but only social action can resolve it. Science can now serve society by exposing the crisis of modern technology to the judgment of all mankind. Only this judgment can determine whether the knowledge that science has given us shall destroy humanity or advance the welfare of man.
Barry Commoner
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Anything that seems incomprehensible is regarded by science merely as evidence that there is something we have not yet understood, be it a conjuring trick, advanced technology or a new law of physics.
David Deutsch
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It does not help that some politicians and journalists assume the public is interested only in those aspects of science that promise immediate practical applications to technology or medicine.
Steven Weinberg
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It is a commonplace of modern technology that there is a high measure of certainty that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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The cyborg is now the ideal to which all our most advanced technology is tending.
Bryan Appleyard
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Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved novelist who had not set out to be a novelist, and who took little joy in the process of crafting novels. He loved talking to audiences. He liked writing screenplays. He liked being at the cutting edge of technology and inventing
Douglas Adams
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Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk. We are only saved by music from being overwhelmed by nonsense.
Lewis Thomas
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The definition of conventional technology is that it worked once.
Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky
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What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken in a humble but irrepressible progression
of assumptions, measurements, deductions, and codifications of pure science.
Buckminster Fuller
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