Jason Silva Quotes

You cannot play with fire.

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

Everything in life is a double-edged sword.

Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.

But the truth is a double-edged sword; it is a dangerous thing.

When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.

I did so many things that made me a threat.

Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power in the hands of the good man, it also offers an equal advantage to the evil disposed.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

War is the province of danger.

By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

As for the "triumphs of science," let us honour, with astonishment and awe, the genius of those who invented them; but let us remember that the things themselves are as a gun or a sword, with which we can kill our enemy, but with which also our enemy can kill us.

The mechanical arts are of ambiguous use, serving as well for hurt as for remedy.

Every technology that can improve the human condition could harm the human condition. Someone evil could program a robot to hurt people.

With every technology, there will be misuses of it.

Science and technology are the keys to both our longevity and our demise. Our entire existence on this planet is a double-edged sword.

Technology is always a double-edged sword.

The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches.

What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it is better to live without it (the standard model)? Or to fall into her arms fire to fire? There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value. Inside the horror of Nagasaki and Hiroshima lies the beauty of Einstein's E=MC squared

Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.

One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.