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"Civilization in its present form hasn't got long."
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"Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization."
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"Education is not the amount of information that is pushed into the brain and causes havoc there, undigested all through a lifetime. Education must be a symposium of life-building, character- making and assimilation of ideas in the pursuit of building a more harmonious, peaceful and truly civilized world."
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"If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex."
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"It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward."
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"Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance."
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"People in this civilization are starving in the middle of plenty. This is a civilization that is going down, not because it hasn't got the knowledge that would save it, but because nobody will use the knowledge."
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"There is nothing more savage than modern civilization."
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"Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization."
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"The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings."
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"I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt."
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"If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so."
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"This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief."
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"Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long."
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"There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history."
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"Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year."
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"A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time."
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"Science always uses metaphor."
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"You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future."
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"I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it."
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"If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space."
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