Science And Technology

One machine can do

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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. Elbert Hubbard

Equipped with his five

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Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. Edwin Powell Hubble

There has come about

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There has come about a general public awareness that America is not automatically, and effortlessly, and unquestionably the leader of the world in science and technology. This comes as no surprise to those of us who have watched and tried to warn against the steady deterioration in the teaching of science and mathematics in the … Read more

Science is not marginal.

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Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species’ repertory. It comprises what we know of the material world with reasonable certainty. . . . Thanks to science and technology, access to factual information of all kinds is rising exponentially. … Read more

Even bigger machines, entailing

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Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a denial of wisdom. Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the nonviolent, the elegant and beautiful. E. F. Schumacher