William Faulkner Quotes

It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to make their life better - all civilizations throughout history have done this. What is unique about us in America is the accelerated rate at which we continually search for novelty and progress.

Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

Today's innovation is tomorrow's tradition.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

Cities are the crucible of civilization.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. This revolution has produced the most powerful and diverse spur to innovation of any in modern times.

Civilizations are a matter of the mind.

Modern civilization depends on science …

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

A certain degree of progress from the rudest state in which man is found,—a dweller in caves, or on trees, like an ape, a cannibal, an eater of pounded snails, worms, and offal,—a certain degree of progress from this extreme is called Civilization.

Absolutely everything undergoes evolvement - whether it's technology, journalism, the NFL, medicine.

I love talking about space, our society, and what the future holds for us as a civilization.

From phones to cars to medicine, technology touches every part of our lives. If you can create technology, you can change the world.

The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.

The intelligent use of science and technology are the tools with which to achieve a new direction.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with 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.

Innovation is the calling card of the future.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

Scientists are not these guys in lab coats deep in the inner bowels of universities and hospitals with their Bunsen burners. They're the people molding the culture that we live in, the future of our culture, and the technology we rely on every day.

Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.

The future is here.