Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
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