Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.

When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.

Science is the only savior.

You don't have to be a spiritual seeker, you can be a businessman dealing with the revolution in computers. You could be a congressman, or a scientist. No matter what area of life and endeavor we are in we are seeing the signs of new-paradigm thinking.

Should an anthropologist or a sociologist be looking for a bizarre society to study, I would suggest he come to Ulster. It is one of Europe's oddest countries. Here, in the middle of the twentieth century, with modern technology transforming everybody's lives, you find a medieval mentality that is being dragged painfully into the eighteenth century by some forward-looking people.

Obsolescence is the very hallmark of progress.

These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.

Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.

Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature.

Ancient travelers guessed; modern travelers measure.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development.

The liberating force of technology the instrumentalization of things turns into ... the instrumentalization of man.

Never in history has distance meant less.

WHY did we start doing WHAT we’re doing in the first place, and WHAT can we do to bring our cause to life considering all the technologies and market opportunities available today?

Science fiction is the very literature of change.

The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool to cook our food.’ He gestured vaguely in the direction of the Delta’s engines. ‘Fire is what eventually led to travel across the black beyond, the ability to start a new life on a New World.

Our future lies with today's kids and tomorrow's space exploration.

It would be nice and fairly nearly true, to say that 'from that time forth, Eustace was a different boy.' To be strictly accurate, he began to be a different boy. He had relapses. There were still many days when he could be very tiresome. But most of those I shall not notice. The cure had begun.

If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

[To learn] is to harness Nature; to spare man all that is most physical, backbreaking, and brutish in the work of production; to make mind master over matter.

The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree.

Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.