Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
John Boyd Orr
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My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength. -
My knowledge of video games ends with Nintendo 'Mario Bros.' -
When I climb into my car, I enter my destination into a GPS device, whose spatial memory supplants my own. I have photographs to store the images I want to remember, books to store knowledge and now, thanks to Google, I rarely have to remember anything more than the right set of search terms to access humankind's collective memory. -
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. -
But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.
More quotes by John Boyd Orr
- There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.
- When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
- Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.
- It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.
- Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.