Submitted by SCEN102 class, Fall 1995
"Science Concepts behind High Technology"
Mostly listed in order received, except lyrics and poetry are at end.
Technology does not have to be incorporated into a machine.
It can be in form of a idea, a new way of things. Technology is a
powerful force in increasing productivity. Much of the new Technology of
Industrial production, like automation and robots is introduced by small
companies built around one invention.
Compton's Encyclopedia 1986, level 11, pg. 178
Submitted by:
Reena Patel
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft, and the
only one that can be mass produced without unskilled labor.
WERNER VON BRAUN, found in
Nanowackology
at
SherryArt
Submitted by:
Tim Cooper and Laura Dalessio
(The Bad!)
Perhaps every scientific and technological advance comes with a price to pay.
FRED ABATEMARCO, Popular Science, August 1995, p.4
Submitted by:
Mark Orlowski
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet
hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
KONRAD LORENZ,
Found in "Just Joking", vers. 1.0, WordStar Internation Inc. (1992)
Submitted by:
Betsy Winter
I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the
intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over
whether it is true or not.
PETER MEDAWAR,
Found in "Just Joking", vers. 1.0, WordStar Internation Inc. (1992)
Submitted by:
Betsy Winter
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all
technical endeavors.... Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and
equations.
ALBERT EINSTEIN,
Found in "Just Joking", vers. 1.0, WordStar Internation Inc. (1992)
Submitted by:
Betsy Winter
Never look at data on a Friday night. It can spoil your weekend.
Anonymous Researcher,
Found in "Just Joking", vers. 1.0, WordStar Internation Inc. (1992)
Submitted by:
Betsy Winter
No matter how clever or artificially intelligent computers get,
and no matter how much they help us advance, they will always be strictly
machines and we will be strictly humans. When we finally do etend the
living range of humanity throughout near space, possibly throughout the
entire solar system and out to the stars, it will be done in tandem with
advanced computers that will be as intelligent as we are, but never
intelligent in the same way humans are. They will need us as much as we
need them.
ISAAC ASIMOV,
found in
Impact of Science on Society, an electronic text at
Rutger's Library
Submitted by:
JoEllen Clark
..it would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on
earth.
DANIEL BERNOULLI,
quoted in The Mathematical Intelligencer, v. 13, no. 1, Winter 1991.
Found at Furman Univ.
Mathematics Quotations Server, search for
"Physics"
Submitted by:
Eric Lam
(The Good?)
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
Submitted by:
Dana Chaby
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is
that it is comprehensible.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Submitted by:
Rachel Mussaf
Imagination is more important than information.
BENJAMIN FRANKIN
Submitted by:
Rachel Mussaf
We are prbing that man can live in outer space and
at the bottom of the sea. Meanwhile, in the area
in between, its getting tougher and tougher.
Unknown, quoted in the Farm Journal
Submitted by:
Rachel Mussaf
(The Inevitable)
Progress Through Technology
Advertising slogan for Audi cars in 1986.
Found in Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations
Submitted by:
Brian Lee
(The Future)
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them
into the impossible.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE,
"Technology and the Future"
Submitted by:
Philana Gibbs
The technologically literate person is one who understands the
role and impact of technology upon society, accepts the responsibilities
associated with living in the technologically oriented information
age,...and uses technology as a tool for obtaining, organizing, and
manipulating information and for communication and creative
expression"
Michigan State Board of education--Model Core
curriculum, 1991
Submitted by:
Marc Lazar
(The Future)
When man found out the world was round, his perspective of himself changed.
When he found out he was like the rest of the animals, his perspectives changed.
In the end of the twentieth century man's mind, his last claim to uniquiness, is going down the drain.
MONTY NEWBORN,
Associate for Computing Machinery Computer Chess Committee,
as quoted in Wire Magazine
Submitted by:
Kirsten Ryder
However far modern science and technics have fallen short of their
inherent possibilties, they have taught mankind at least one lesson:
Nothing is impossible.
LEWIS MUMFORD (1895-1990), U.S. social philosopher. The Conduct of
Life, "The Challenge of Renewal" (1951).
Submitted by:
Lindsay Price
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Submitted by:
Laura Dalsessio
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemisry and physics so important a phenomenon as first love?
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Submitted by:
Laura Dalsessio
Beneath the lawns and within the walls of the University of
Delaware campus lie more than 700 miles of fiber optics and cable,
forming a network that connects everyone to one another and to the
information superhighway-the Internet....
"The Messenger" from the University of Delaware.
Submitted by:
Kelli Barnes
(The Future/The Inevitable)
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are,
but in what direction we are moving.
O. W. HOLMES
found at
Zachary Goodyear's Quotes Page
Submitted by:
Valerie Bumpers and Lindsay Harris
(The Good?)
Ben flung himself into the sixties
technology with the enthusiasum of a
newly enrolled boy scout demonstrating
knot-tying to his parents.
Submitted by:
Robert Brennan
You fear changes and all that is new
stand in the way of progress
like primitive man afraid of fire
'til he explores its many uses
The power of the atom at our disposal
yet it is called unsafe
nuclear energy so clean and pure
your ignorance is a disgrace
Holding your fate in a magnetic grip
of all your irrational fears
the shadow of machinery cast upon the flesh of man
blood, sweat, and gears
the robots of dawn offsprings of industry
spot you in the cobalt blue light
one fell swoop and you've become a memory
You worship a dead man hung with nails
only a fool would die for the sins of humanity
on your knees before electronics
lets replace this religious insanity
tear down the churches instead on the grounds
build there the holy reactors
give us the children science and math
in place of bibles and pastors
You bleeding heart liberals
who oppose the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
must be compelled to retire
you serve only as obstacles and should be used
to fuel the nuclear pyre
CARNIVOR,
Technophobia
Submitted by:
Brian Boulden
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Fall 1995 Tech Quote Submissions