Quotes About Technology

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

You know something I could really do without? The Space Shuttle. ... It's irresponsible. The last thing we should be doing is sending our grotesquely distorted DNA out into space.

People tend not to disassociate the technological issues from pure scientific research, so that science sometimes gets a bad name for things that science doesn't deserve having a bad name for.

A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.

Thus science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race.

Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing.

Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.

science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

It does not help that some politicians and journalists assume the public is interested only in those aspects of science that promise immediate practical applications to technology or medicine.

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

It is a little bit science project-y sometimes, and we talk about it that way.

It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction of Hell.

I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.

The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and organisation to composition.

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

When he (man) ceased any longer to heed the words of the seers and prophets, science lovingly brought forth the radio.

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.

Yeah I loved, as a kid growing up, I loved science-fiction.

So far from being an isolated phenomenon the late war is only an example of the disruptive result that we may constantly expect from the progress of science.

We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost.

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago but it is put to better use.

Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.

Sci-fi opens the way in mind for the new science.

Steampunk is Victorian science fiction