Carl Sagan Quotes

There's been resistance to every new technology that's ever been introduced. When books came out hundreds of years ago, there were complaints that it would destroy the oral tradition. Some of those fears were justified, but it didn't stop the rise of the written word. And books have proven to be incredibly useful.

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.

Well into the 20th century, scholars viewed economic advances as resulting from commercial innovations enabled by the discoveries of scientists - discoveries that come from outside the economy and out of the blue.

Once upon a time, sound was new technology.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn't exist. TV didn't exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

Mass application of technological innovations, which constitutes much of the distinctive substance of modern economic growth, is closely connected with the further progress of science, in its turn the basis for additional advance in technology.

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.

A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.

As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair.

We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.

Marx never saw an electric light bulb.

I fear … that morals do not of necessity advance hand in hand with the sciences.

Isn't it strange that as technology advances, the quality of life frequently declines.

Who brings tomorrow into the present if not the scientists, technicians and engineers?

Technology is always ahead of the law.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

I truly hope that we can evolve with technology, and use it for the benefit of all mankind, but history might suggest otherwise.

Historically, science and society have gone separate ways, although society has provided the funds for science to grow, and in return, science has given society all the material things it enjoys.

The evolution of technology is, like the evolution of literature, heavily path-dependent. Culture plays a far more important role in the acceptance, adoption, and spread of technology than many of us are willing to acknowledge.

Every generation’s breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation’s Technology

Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire has been ethically ambiguous. If you want to reason about faith, and offer a reasoned (and reason responsive) defense of faith as an extra category of belief worthy of special consideration, I'm eager to play. I certainly grant the existence of the phenomenon of faith; what I want to see is a reasoned ground for taking faith seriously as a way of getting to the truth , and not, say, just as a way people comfort themselves and each other

Not every advance is progress. Not every new thing is better for us humanly.