E. O. Wilson Quotes About Technology

Quotes about: Technology

• We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.

  E. O. Wilson

  Technology, Age, Stones

  "The Great Matrix of Being" by William Grassie, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2013.

• The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.

  E. O. Wilson

  Real, Technology, Humanity

  "An Intellectual Entente". harvardmagazine.com. September 10, 2009.

• Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind seeks but cannot find the precise place and hour. We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. We thrash about. We are terribly confused by the mere fact of our existence, and a danger to ourselves and to the rest of life.

  E. O. Wilson

  Stars, Confused, Real

• Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.

  E. O. Wilson

  Technology, Morality, Should

  "LETTERS / Readers Have Their Say / Morality and our environmental salvation". www.sfgate.com. May 12, 2002.

• We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies.

  E. O. Wilson

  Technology, Emotion, Medieval

• Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory. It comprises what we know of the material world with reasonable certainty. . . . Thanks to science and technology, access to factual information of all kinds is rising exponentially.

  E. O. Wilson

  Art, Technology, Humanity

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