"World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole."
-Barry Commoner
WarView Quote
"The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.“
-Barry Commoner
posted in Technology
Other Quotes by Barry Commoner
Discover more inspiring quotes by Barry Commoner
"My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons."
-Barry Commoner
ScienceView Quote
"As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor."
-Barry Commoner
FoodView Quote
"It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance."
-Barry Commoner
TechnologyView Quote
"Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art."
-Barry Commoner
EnvironmentalView Quote
"What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are."
-Barry Commoner
EnvironmentalView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."
-Gertrude Stein
TechnologyView Quote
"The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life."
-John F. Kennedy
TechnologyView Quote
"We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology."
-Carl Sagan
TechnologyView Quote
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."
-Richard P. Feynman
TechnologyView Quote
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-Arthur C. Clarke
TechnologyView 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