“Indeed, through fundamental advances in bionics in this century, we will set the technological foundation for an enhanced human experience, and we will end disability.” HumansEndsCenturyFoundationFundamentalsDisabilityTechnologicalHuman ExperienceBionics Author:Hugh Herr
“Technology and Ideology are shaking the foundations of 21st century capitalism. Technology is making skills and knowledge the only sources of sustainable strategic advantage.” TechnologyCenturySourceSkillsCapitalismAdvantageFoundationIdeology21st CenturyShakingStrategicSkills And Knowledge Author:Lester Thurow
“For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build solidly grounded ideas about the moral and political demands of human life. Margaret Mead saw mid-twentieth-century anthropology as engaged in a project no less ambitious than Kant's own, and her Terry Lectures on Continuities in Cultural Evolution provide an excellent point to enter into her reflections.” NeedsHumansIdeasPoliticalTermMoralSawsCenturyEvolutionDemandProjectsReflectionFoundationFamiliarExcellentHuman LifeEngagedAmbitiousGroundedLecturesTwentieth CenturyContinuityAnthropologyMead Author:Margaret Mead
“The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.” SocialCenturyFoundationCategoriesInheritanceAntiquityColonists Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
“You are inhuman brutes determined to rob us of our spiritual consolations and sweep away the moral foundations of our civilization, and on the other: You are obscurantist ignoramuses who'd like to shut down progress and drag us all back to the 16th century, with kings and priests telling us what to think.” ThinkingSpiritualMoralProgressCenturyEvolutionKingsCivilizationFoundationDeterminedPriestsDragConsolationBrutesInhuman Author:John Derbyshire
“If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures ofits inheritance on new and more stable foundations, there is indeed need for those now living fully to realize how far the decay has already progressed.” IfsWorldNeedsWarRealizingHistoryCenturyCivilizationFoundationSavedTreasureSecureWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiStableWorld War IDecayInheritanceBarbarismSubmergedIf ThenLiving Fully Author:Johan Huizinga
“Many philosophers in the second half of the 20th century really seemed to think that they were laying the foundations for science by laying down the conceptual (necessary) truths.” ThinkingHalfCenturyFoundationPhilosopher20th CenturyLaying Down Author:Patricia Churchland