Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?

Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage someday that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

It is said that one machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine, however, can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.

We have forgotten the beast and the flower not in order to remember either ourselves or God, but in order to forget everything except the machine.

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers.