Technology – at what price?

“During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.”

~ Bernard Mannes Baruch

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. 

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.  We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.  This is a prescription for disaster.  We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. 

~Carl Sagan 

 The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

~Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939

Modern Technology Owes Ecology An Apology.

~Alan M. Eddison

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

~John Baptiste Moliere