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"Civilization in its present form hasn't got long."
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"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."
"It ain't technology that enhances the civilization..but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints."
"Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!"
"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."
"Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down."
"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."
"Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization."
"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."
"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."
"In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand."
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"I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway."
"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."
"I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all."
"China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution."
"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."
"There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history."
"Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average."
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