Quotes About Civilization

The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science.

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

History is the science of people.

Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind.

The subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold-the Oral, the Written and the Monumental.

Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again.

The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

The science is in: either we go cold turkey on our coal, oil, and gas addictions, or we risk raising the planet's temperature to a level incompatible with the continued existence of civilization.

We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin word for knowledge ... Knowledge is our destiny.

A number of people who are interested in computers in this lifetime programmed computers in Atlantis.

Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.

Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war.

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

Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves - art, literature, science, religion.

Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.