Quotes About Progress

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.

Although many believe that technology automatically enables more realistic expression, I believe that is just not correct.

Technology may change rapidly, but people change slowly. The principals [of design] come from understanding of people. They remain true forever.

Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.

There is no likelihood that man can ever tap the power of the atom

It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.

The technology itself is not transformative. It's the school, the pedagogy, that is transformative.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.

When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?

There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.

Our quest for a Digital India is all encompassing. It is going to touch your lives in several ways, making it easier.

The world used to think we are a land of snake charmers and black magic. But our youth has surprised the world with its IT [information technology] skills. I dream of a digital India.

Science and technology can solve all the world's problems, and historically it has been shown to make the world better and better.

We now have in our hands—really, in our libraries—the technology to feed, clothe, and supply energy to an ever-growing population for the next seven billion years.

Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology.

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.

The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our technology has strewn about us.

We need all hands on deck, and that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

Any growth requires a temporary loss of security.

I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.