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 | "Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps
the greatest of God"s gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts
and of sciences." | |
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Found in the topic Technology.
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| "The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human
life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with
profound historical consequences is hay. Nobody knows who invented hay,
the idea of cutting grass in the autumn and stor" | |
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Found in the topic History.
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| "(On the anthropogenic increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide
concentration) The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three
smallest and most active reservoirs (of carbon in the global carbon
cycle), the atmosphere, the plants and the soil, are all of roughly the
same size. This means that large human disturbance of any one of these
reservoirs will have large effects on all three. We cannot hope either to
understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand
and manage the trees and the soil too." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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