“The new science will be a manifestation of ancient technologies.It will come in sudden, humans will experience technological shock.”

“Today, for the mass of humanity, science and technology embody 'miracle, mystery, and authority'. Science promises that the most ancient human fantasies will at last be realized. Sickness and ageing will be abolished; scarcity and poverty will be no more; the species will become immortal. Like Christianity in the past, the modern cult of science lives on the hope of miracles. But to think that science can transform the human lot is to believe in magic. Time retorts to the illusions of humanism with the reality: frail, deranged, undelivered humanity. Even as it enables poverty to be diminished and sickness to be alleviated, science will be used to refine tyranny and perfect the art of war.”

“Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.”

“Science embodies the human desire to understand nature; technology couples that desire with the ambition to control nature.”

“The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.”

“The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.”