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The
saddest aspect of life right now is that science
gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
-- Isaac Asimov
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if the society toward which we are developing
is not to be a nightmare of exhaustion, we must
use the interlude of the present era to develop
a new technology which is based on a circular
flow of materials such that the only sources of
man's provisions will be his own waste products.
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-- Kenneth
E. Boulding
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As
long as man was small in numbers and limited in technology,
he could realistically regard the earth as an infinite
reservoir, an infinite source of inputs and an infinite
cesspool for outputs. Today we can no longer make
this assumption. Earth has become a space ship, not
only in our imagination but also in the hard realities
of the social, biological, and physical system in
which man is enmeshed. In what we might call the "old
days," when man was small in numbers and earth was
large, he could pollute it with impunity, though even
then he frequently destroyed his immediate environment
and had to move on to a new spot, which he then proceeded
to destroy. Now man can no longer do this; he must
live in the whole system, in which he must recycle
his wastes and really face up to the problem of the
increase in material entropy which his activities
create. In a space ship there are no sewers.
-- Kenneth E.
Boulding
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"Human
beings should only use technology which if the worst
case happens, it leads to an acceptable damage.
Definitely nuclear energy is not in that category.
I want an industrial world where people are allowed
to make errors. Because human creativity has to
do with being allowed to make errors. We want an
error-friendly environment."
-- Hans-Peter Dürr
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Every
great advance in science
has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
-- John Dewey
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Most
of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially
simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a
language comprehensible to everyone.
-- Albert Einstein
Science
can only ascertain what is, but not what should
be, and outside of its domain value judgments
of all kinds remain necessary.
-- Albert Einstein
The
whole of science is nothing more than a refinement
of everyday thinking.
-- Albert Einstein
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Medical
science has proven time and again that when the
resources are provided, great progress in the
treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can
occur.
~Michael J.
Fox
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Scientists,
therefore, are responsible for their research,
not only intellectually but also morally. This
responsibility has become an important issue in
many of today's sciences, but especially so in
physics, in which the results of quantum mechanics
and relativity theory have opened up two very
different paths for physicists to pursue. They
may lead us - to put it in extreme terms - to
the Buddha or to the Bomb, and it is up to each
of us to decide which path to take.
-- Fritjof Capra
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What
is a scientist after all? It is a curious man
looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature,
trying to know what's going on.
-- Jacques Cousteau
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Think
of it. We are blessed with technology that would
be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the
wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody,
clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth
a chance. We know now what we could never have
known before -- that we now have the option for
all humanity to make it successfully on this planet
in this lifetime. Whether it is to be Utopia or
Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right
up to the final moment.
-- R.
Buckminster Fuller
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"America
has the technology and resources to meet all its
energy needs while safeguarding the earth's climate.
The urgent question now is, 'Do we have the will?'
At least one city does, and I'm proud to live
in it."
~ Denis Hayes
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Science
may have found a cure for most evils; but it has
found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the
apathy of human beings.
-- Helen Keller
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Let
both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science
instead of its terrors. Together let us explore
the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease,
tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and
commerce.
-- John F.
Kennedy
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Our
scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
--
Martin Luther
King, Jr
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Massive
poverty and obscene inequality are such terrible
scourges of our times -- times in which the world
boasts breathtaking advances in science, technology,
industry and wealth accumulation -- that they
have to rank alongside slavery and apartheid as
social evils.
-- Nelson Mandela
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The
foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious
radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation
of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They
threaten all nations, just as science and information
are the potential friends of all nations. Classical
diplomacy and strategy were aimed at identifying
enemies and confronting them. Now they have to identify
dangers, global or local, and tackle them before
they become disasters.
-- Shimon Peres
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The
good news is we have the technology and the tools
to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that
is standing in our way is education and will.
-- Natalie Portman
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Technology
is driving us together. In many ways we are becoming
like one family. With the global threats resulting
from science and technology, the whole of humankind
now needs protection. We have to extend our loyalty
to the whole of the human race.
-- Joseph Rotblat
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Science is what you know. Philosophy is what
you don't know.
-- Bertrand
Russell
I
am compelled to fear that science will be used
to promote the power of dominant groups rather
than to make men happy.
-- Bertrand
Russell
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It
is the tension between creativity and skepticism
that has produced the stunning and unexpected
findings of science. -- Carl
Sagan
Science
is not only compatible with spirituality; it is
a profound source of spirituality. -- Carl
Sagan
In
science it often happens that scientists say,
"You know that's a really good argument; my position
is mistaken," and then they actually change their
minds and you never hear that old view from them
again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as
often as it should, because scientists are human
and change is sometimes painful. But it happens
every day. I cannot recall the last time something
like that happened in politics or religion.
-- Carl Sagan
Science
is a way of thinking much more than it is a body
of knowledge.
-- Carl Sagan
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We've
arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements
profoundly depend on science and technology.
-- Carl Sagan
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Imagine
a world where science and technology
Serve only to bring out the best in humanity.
Imagine a better world...Imagine peace on earth!
--
Robert Alan Silverstein
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"A
land ethic for tomorrow should be as honest as
Thoreau's Walden, and as comprehensive as the
sensitive science of ecology. It should stress
the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live
logic of the great chain of life."
~ Stewart Udall
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We
know from science that nothing in the universe
exists as an isolated or independent entity.
-- Margaret J.
Wheatley
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