Quotes About Hubris

In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control.

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.

Now arrogance and error would reap the usual dividends

hubris was a crime in ancient Athens. To humiliate a defeated foe was a crime.

Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris. Percy: the brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches? Annabeth:No, Seaweed Brain. That's HUMMUS. hubris is worse. Percy: what could be worse than hummus? Annabeth: Hubris means deadly pride, Percy. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else... Even the gods.

Ego is the biggest enemy of humans.

The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.

Just as the Hare was overconfident in its speed, so the developers are overconfident in their ability to remain productive.

Feeling superior and beyond it is a sure sign that the irrational is at work.

Drunk with success and sick with ambition, such empires expand to grotesque proportions and meet a ruin that is total. This

The bigger it bloats, the harder it falls.

All civilisations consider themselves invulnerable; history warns us that none is.

The more power a man held, the more likely he was to be an idiot with it.

Admit you found it pleasant to be worshipped. Admit that you liked the idea of being a sort of dea ex machina--saving people from their own folly when they didn't in the least want to be saved from it.

El orgullo viene delante de la destrucción y un espíritu arrogante antes de la caída»

You flew too near the sun and you were scorched.

Skyscrapers, said Speaker. With so much room on the Ringworld, why build so tall? To prove they can do it. No, that's asinine, said Louis. There'd be no point, if they could build something like the Ringworld itself. Perhaps the tall buildings came later, during the decline of civilization.

God neither created us nor wished us to be created, but that we are the work of an inferior deity, a Demiurge, who wrongly believed himself to be God? Heavens, how probable it seems; and this overweening hubris has been handed on down to our children.

The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.

Hubris and science are incompatible.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

Conceited little mega-puppy.

How typical of a machine to think it knows better.