Lewis Mumford quotes and words of wisdom

"Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences."
Found in the topic Technology.

"Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf."
Found in the topic Ambition.

"The humanities and science are not in inherent conflict but have become separated in the twentieth century. Now their essential unity must be re-emphasized, so that twentieth-century multiplicity may become twentieth-century unity."
Found in the topic Science.

Interesting Quotes

Never judge a book by its movie.J.W. Eagan

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.Franklin Delano Roosevelt