Technology Quotes

From the printing press to AI, these quotes explore humanity's relationship with its own inventions.

12000 quotes

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"Technology is best when it brings people together."
Pickering Edward
"Technology should serve humanity, not the reverse."
Geoffrey Chaucer
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"Technology should serve humanity, not enslave it."
Ovid
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"Technology amplifies what is already within us."
Ovid
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"Technology should serve humanity, not master it."
Virgil
"Technology should serve humanity, not rule it."
Geoffrey Chaucer
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"Technology serves those who master its nature but enslaves those it masters."
Homer
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"Technology is neither good nor evil, only the use of it is."
Homer
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"Technology amplifies human nature—our best and worst."
Pickering Edward
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"Technology should serve humanity, or humanity will serve technology."
Pickering Edward
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"Technology should serve humanity, not master it."
Virgil
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"The tools we create soon create demands upon us."
Homer
"Technology is a tool; wisdom is how we use it."
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
"Technology without ethics is dangerous progress."
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
"Technology should serve humanity, not control it."
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
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"Our telescopes extend our vision across the gulfs of space and time."
Harlow Shapley
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"Technology without conscience is like fire in the hands of a child."
Pickering Edward
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"Technology is a mirror; what it reflects depends on who is wielding it."
Pickering Edward
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"Technology is best when it brings people together."
George Lemaitre
"The spectroscope revealed secrets that naked observation could never uncover."
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
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"The telescope is humanity's gift to itself."
Edwin Hubble
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"Our telescopes extend our vision beyond the limits of our eyes."
Edwin Hubble
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"The telescope transformed our understanding of reality."
Edwin Hubble
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"Technology amplifies our nature; use it to amplify your best self."
Pickering Edward
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"Technology is the extension of human capability into new realms."
Pickering Edward
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"Technological advancement without philosophical depth produces only cleverer ways to make mistakes."
Fritz Zwicky
"The spectroscope became my gateway to understanding the fundamental nature of stellar composition."
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
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"The spectroscope is as revolutionary to astronomy as the microscope was to biology."
Edwin Hubble
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"The telescope is humanity's greatest tool for extending the boundaries of perception."
Edwin Hubble
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"Technology should be in service of human flourishing, not the other way around."
Lisa Randall