Futurology Quotes

Enjoy the best quotes on Futurology , Explore, save & share top quotes on Futurology .

What was civilization ever, really, but the attempt by man to talk himself into being good?

Stanisław Lem
Save QuoteView Quote

We owe our liberation to chemistry," he went on. "For all perception is but a change in the concentration of hydrogen ions on the surface of the brain cells. Seeing me, you actually experience a disturbance in the sodium-potassium equilibrium across your neuron membranes. So all we have todo is send a few well-chosen molecules down into those cortical mitochondria, activate the right neurohumoral-synaptic transmission effector sites, and your fondest dreams come true. But you knowall this," he concluded, subdued.

Stanisław Lem, The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
Save QuoteView Quote

Futurology always ends up telling you more about your own time than about the future.

Matt Ridley, The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
Save QuoteView Quote

We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future will have received full justice from us. A good future is implicit in the soils, forests, grasslands, marshes, deserts, mountains, rivers, lakes, and oceans that we have now, and in the good things of human culture that we have now; the only valid "futurology" available to us is to take care of those things. We have no need to contrive and dabble at "the future of the human race"; we have the same pressing need that we have always had - to love, care for, and teach our children.(pg. 73, "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine")

Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
Save QuoteView Quote

The only thing we can try to do is to influence the direction scientists are taking. Since we might soon be able to engineer our desires too, perhaps the real questions facing us is not 'What do we want to become?', but "What do we want to want?' Those who are not spooked by this question probably haven't given it enough thought.

Yuval Noah Harari, קיצור תולדות האנושות
Save QuoteView Quote