You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

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've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology yet most of us are alienated from science.

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.

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.

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism a new path must be found a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

Roman civilization had achieved within the bounds of its technology relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

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