"Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.“


-J. G. Ballard

posted in science


Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

Other Quotes You Might Like

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai."

-J. G. Ballard

warView Quote
"Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute."

-J. G. Ballard

technologyView Quote
"Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century."

-J. G. Ballard

scienceView Quote
"I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means."

-J. G. Ballard

imaginationView Quote
"Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements."

-J. G. Ballard

humorView Quote
"I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging."

-J. G. Ballard

futureView Quote

More Quotes About science

Explore other inspiring quotes in this category

"Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff."

-Joel Edgerton

scienceView Quote
"I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it."

-Diane Cilento

scienceView Quote
"Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts."

-Brian Aldiss

scienceView Quote
"We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space."

-Nick Lampson

scienceView Quote
"The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development."

-John Desmond Bernal

scienceView Quote
"The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun."

-John Desmond Bernal

scienceView Quote