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• I think the problem isn't the amount of knowledge we have to assimilate in our world, but the rate at which we can assimiliate it.
  Science, engineering, and technology do not yield the 'whys' of truth...
• If science were explained to the average person in a way that is accessible and exciting, there would be no room for pseudoscience.
  But there is a kind of Gresham's Law by which in popular culture the bad science drives out the good....
• While most of the environmental problems we face result from the use of technology, society must depend upon technology to find solutions to these problems.
• Our ancestors harnessed the power of a sun, and so again shall we.
  -- Commissioner Pravin Lal, "The Science of Our Fathe...
• Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today-but the core of science fiction, its essence .
  . . has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all. -- Issac Asimov...
• We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
  -- Warren Weave...
• The mechanistic world view, taking the play of physical particles as ultimate reality
  found its expression in a civilization which glorifies physical technology that has led eventually to the catastrophes of our time....
• The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman wears a brown suit in the city.
  Colleges may be to blame. English majors are encouraged, I know, to hate chemistry and physics, and to be proud because they are not dull and creepy and humorless and war-oriented like the engineers across the quad....
• A study of the science of technology defines what is possible
  a study of the economics of technology establishes which of the possibilities is practical and useful....