David Cronenberg Quotes

Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?

The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.

I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.

Is the human race a universal constructor?

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.

Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests.

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

If the artificial is not better than the natural, to what end are all the arts of life? To dig, to plow, to build, to wear clothes, are direct infringements of the injunction to follow nature.

Science is among the most profoundly human of our activities. Far from being subsumed by the dehumanising effects of technology, science, in fact, remains our last stand against it.

Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man

The applications of science have built man a well-supplied house, and are teaching him to live healthily therein. They have enabled him to throw masses of people against one another with cruel weapons. They may yet allow him truly to encompass the great record and to grow in the wisdom of race experience. He may perish in conflict before he learns to wield that record for his true good. Yet, in the application of science to the needs and desires of man, it would seem to be a singularly unfortunate stage at which to terminate the process, or to lose hope as to the outcome.

Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating; it can only be an expression of our humanity.

Science merely amplifies the capabilities of human beings. Science gives us the ability to do ill and to do good more than we had, and to question science in this respect is like questioning whether people ought to have two hands or just one, because with two hands they could do more evil than they can with just one.

I couldn't think of anything more pointless than reading a piece of fiction written by a robot.

There's a fine line between something saving you time and replacing a bit of you that could be useful. I've certainly become more and more aware of that.

I love the writing of Walter Tevis and what he views as the possibilities of science rather than science fiction.

We should never forget that in the smartphone, the smart part is us creators.

As humans, we've always innovated our way out of problems, whether it was the first torch to light a dark cave or the steam engine that sparked a revolution.

The human condition is endlessly fascinating to me, and the existential horrors of life are what drive our imaginations and theater in general.

In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry. In it she says that on any particular day in the world, if poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.