The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind. Frederick Soddy
The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind.
Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with the relative value of all forms of culture. Franz Boas
Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with the relative value of all forms of culture.
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization. Franz Boas
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.
I see a pressing need to prepare thinking adults for the outcome of the present search activity – the imminent detection of signals from an extraterrestrial civilization. Frank Drake
I see a pressing need to prepare thinking adults for the outcome of the present search activity – the imminent detection of signals from an extraterrestrial civilization.
It doesn't tell you anything about the civilization, but it tells you a civilization is there. Frank Drake
It doesn't tell you anything about the civilization, but it tells you a civilization is there.
One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands. Francis Galton
One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands.
The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work out their common civilization in their own way. Francis Galton
The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work out their common civilization in their own way.
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. John Muir
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.