Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.

I have always believed that technology drives human civilization's endeavor and progress.

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

That sacred space of conscience where you can exercise your rights in terms of religious freedom and deeply-held, reasonable beliefs is the core of human dignity. In fact, that's the basis for civilization itself. And when you lose that fundamental principle... you have no basis on which to build.

If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of.

I believe that, if managed well, the Fourth Industrial Revolution can bring a new cultural renaissance, which will make us feel part of something much larger than ourselves: a true global civilization. I believe the changes that will sweep through society can provide a more inclusive, sustainable and harmonious society. But it will not come easily.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Our civilization, such as it is, was shaped by religion, and the men who aspire to public office anyplace in the free world must make obeisance to God or risk immediate opprobrium.

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.