Technology Quotes
From the printing press to AI, these quotes explore humanity's relationship with its own inventions.
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"The beauty of the electric age is the multiplication of the conveniences and the saving of labor."Michael Faraday
"Technology is best when it brings people together."Joseph Gay-Lussac
"Technology should amplify human wisdom, not replace it."Hans Christian Ørsted
"Technology without ethics is a sword without a hand to guide it."Hans Christian Ørsted
"Technology should serve humanity, not control it."Jacques Charles
"Technology is the extension of human capability."Jacques Charles
"Machines have given us a false sense of omnipotence, when in reality we are increasingly at their mercy."Bertrand Russell
"The instruments we create extend the reach of human understanding."Joseph Gay-Lussac
"Technology should serve humanity, never the reverse."Jacques Charles
"Technology should serve humanity, not dominate it."Hans Christian Ørsted
"Technology amplifies both human virtue and human vice; choose your technology wisely."Hans Christian Ørsted
"Technology should serve humanity, not enslave it."Gilbert Lewis
"The technologies we develop must be grounded in truths we've honestly discovered."Joseph Gay-Lussac
"Technology should serve the goals of understanding, never replace it."Joseph Gay-Lussac
"Technology, like fire, is a tool that can warm or burn depending on the wielder."Robert Boyle
"The greatest invention is the method by which we discover."Robert Boyle
"What the eye cannot see, the instrument must reveal for us."Amedeo Avogadro
"What nature can do, man may learn to do."Michael Faraday
"What we measure today shapes the inventions of tomorrow."Joseph Gay-Lussac
"If we look at the development of chemistry, we can see that the evolution of ideas is directly connected with the perfection of apparatus."Dmitri Mendeleev
"Technology is the tool of progress."Dmitri Mendeleev
"Technology is the servant of humanity."Antoine Lavoisier
"Technology is merely the application of natural law to human purpose."August Kekulé
"The telescope has opened to us a new universe within the universe."William Herschel
"The telescope is merely an extension of human curiosity."William Herschel
"The instruments we build are extensions of our capacity to wonder."William Herschel
"The technology of one generation becomes the foundation upon which the next generation builds."Friedrich Wöhler
"Every instrument I have created is a tool for seeing more clearly."Tycho Brahe
"Technology amplifies the power of human thought, for better or worse."Pierre-Simon Laplace
"The telescope has opened a new universe to our perception."William Herschel