“I now say that the world has the technology - either available or well advanced in the research pipeline - to feed on a sustainable basis a population of 10 billion people. The more pertinent question today is whether farmers and ranchers will be permitted to use this new technology? While the affluent nations can certainly afford to adopt ultra low-risk positions, and pay more for food produced by the so-called "organic" methods, the one billion chronically undernourished people of the low income, food-deficit nations cannot.” PeopleWorldWellsUseTodayNationsPayTechnologyRiskPositionLowsResearchBasesMethodPopulationAvailableBillionsIncomeFarmersDeficitNew TechnologyAffluentPipelineUltrasLow IncomePertinentRanchersFarmers And RanchersPertinent QuestionsFeeding The World Author:Norman Borlaug
“We are living in a society that is totally dependent on science and high technology, and yet most of us are effectively alienated and excluded from its workings, from the values of science, the methods of science, and the language of science. A good place to start would be for as many of us as possible to begin to understand the decision-making and the basis for those decisions, and to act independently and not be manipulated into thinking one thing or another, but to learn how to think. That's what science does.” ThinkingDoeWould BeValuesLanguageDecisionTechnologyOne ThingBasesMethodDependentDecision MakingExcludedGood PlaceHigh Technology Author:Ann Druyan
“I'm not against the technology at all, I just don't like to use it if it's just to mimic what you can do with traditional methods.” IfsUseCan DoTechnologyMethodTraditional Author:Michel Gondry
“I'm not a fan of technology . I'm a fan of pedagogy, of understanding how people learn and the most effective learning methods. But technology enables some exciting changes.” PeopleUnderstandingTechnologyFansExcitingMethodPedagogy Author:Donald A. Norman
“Philosophers of science constantly discuss theories and representation of reality, but say almost nothing about experiment, technology, or the use of knowledge to alter the world. This is odd, because 'experimental method' used to be just another name for scientific method.... I hope [to] initiate a Back-to-Bacon movement, in which we attend more seriously to experimental science. Experimentation has a life of its own.” WorldUseRealityScienceUsedNamesTechnologyMovementTheoryMethodPhilosopherExperimentsUsed To BeOddRepresentationExperimentationScientific MethodInitiateExperimental ScienceUse Of Knowledge Book:Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science Source: Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science
“I am not a technophobe and I am using the latest technology today, some 30-odd years later, and I am really enjoying what some of the new technologies can offer. But at the same time I am always aware that one can get bogged down in that technology and that it can become more than just a method. That's something that you have to be slightly careful of.” YearsTodayEnjoyTechnologyOffersMethodCarefulOddNew TechnologyLatest Technology Author:David Gilmour
“Renewable energy also creates more jobs than other sources of energy - most of these will be created in the struggling manufacturing sector, which will pioneer the new energy future by investment that allows manufacturers to retool and adopt new technologies and methods.” JobsEnergyTechnologyStruggleSourceMethodInvestmentManufacturingPioneersNew TechnologyRenewable EnergyEnergy SourcesNew EnergyRenewable Energy Sources Author:Jay Inslee
“If there is a central theme to what I called "a peaceful warrior's approach to living," and to The Four Purposes of Life, it is that there may be innumerable techniques or methods one can learn (from the Eastern spiritual cultures and from the Western psychological tradition), but that above and beyond all these technologies waits the school of everyday life.” IfsMaySchoolSpiritualPurposeCultureWaitingTechnologyFourApproachTraditionMethodWesternEverydayTechniquePsychologicalPeacefulWarriorThemePurpose Of LifeEveryday LifeEasternAbove And BeyondPeaceful Warrior Author:Dan Millman
“Find the human in the technology. The currency marketers trade in has not changed even if the methods have. Emotion is what we exchange.” IfsHumansEmotionTechnologyChangedMethodTradeCurrencyMarketers Author:Simon Mainwaring
“There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.” MayTruthScienceDesireTechnologyOne ThingLogicIntelligentMethodWittySincere Author:Charles Pierce
“During the nineteenth century, the rapid emergence and proliferation of new manufacturing methods and building technologies led to the establishment of polytechnic schools that concentrated on the practicalities of engineering and construction rather than the niceties of stylistic correctness or adherence to established precedent.” SchoolTechnologyCenturyBuildingMethodConstructionEstablishmentEngineeringRapidsManufacturingNineteenth CenturyCorrectnessEmergencePrecedentProliferationPracticalityAdherenceNiceties Author:Martin Filler
“But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology. Moreover, they must be men of action and not contemplation. I have the impression that no method of education can produce people with all the qualities required. I am haunted by the idea that this break in human civilization, caused by the discovery of the scientific method, may be irreparable.” PeopleMenHumansMayIdeasActionScienceInterestEducationQualityBreakTechnologyProduceNeededCivilizationDiscoveryRelationMethodAffairPracticalsImpressionContemplationHuman ExperienceBe A ManHuman RelationsScience And TechnologyScientific MethodHuman CivilizationIrreparable Author:Max Born
“The hybridoma technology was a by-product of basic research. Its success in practical applications is to a large extent the result of unexpected and unpredictable properties of the method. It thus represents another clear-cut example of the enormous practical impact of an investment in research which might not have been considered commercially worthwhile, or of immediate medical relevance. It resulted from esoteric speculations, for curiosity's sake, only motivated by a desire to understand nature.” Has BeensMightSuccessScienceDesireUnderstandingNatureResultsTechnologyClearCuttingExampleProductsResearchMethodImpactPropertyInvestmentCuriositySakeMedicalPracticalsEnormousUnexpectedMotivatedApplicationWorthwhileUnpredictableSpeculationRelevanceEsotericBasic Research Author:Cesar Milstein
“Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet.” TechnologyFeetComputerStandingMethodShouldersComputer ScienceThose Who Came Before Us Author:Gerald J. Popek
“Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct action on the family. It involves a psychological adaptation of family life to military or industrial methods, supervision of family life, and training family life for military or industrial service. Technique can leave nothing untouched in a civilization. Everything is its concern. Technique, which is destroying all other civilizations, is more than a simple mechanism: it's a whole civilization in itself.” WholeActionSimpleTechnologyMilitaryCivilizationTrainingConcernDirectArmyMethodPlantTechniquePsychologicalDestroyingMechanismAdaptationFamily LifeTotalitarianismSupervisionDirect Action Author:Jacques Ellul
“If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology” IfsFoundTechnologyPathMankindCivilizationMethodBarbarismNew Paths Book:A Heritage of Stars Source: A Heritage of Stars
“Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.” Has BeensIdeasForceBehindsTechnologyProgressTeamProductsCapitalismInnovationMethodNew IdeasNew TechnologyNew Products Author:Manmohan Singh
“I have always been interested in conducting research that yielded new methods by which to make cloth, and in developing new materials that combine craftsmanship and new technology. But the most important thing for me is to show that, ultimately, technology is not the most important tool; it is our brains, our thoughts, our hands, our bodies, which express the most essential things.” ImportantShowsBodyHandsBrainTechnologyMaterialsEssentialsResearchToolsMethodImportant ThingsDevelopingOur ThoughtsNew TechnologyConductingCraftsmanship Author:Issey Miyake
“The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns …it is safe to predict that… such social inventions as modern-type capitalism, facism and communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed towards the adjustment of modern society to modern methods” StillsPoliticalSocialTechnologyEconomicModernTypeDevelopmentSafeEqualCapitalismMethodPatternsExperimentsInventionCommunismPrimitiveAdjustmentScience And TechnologyModern Society Author:Ralph Linton
“We shouldn't fuel the future with the polluting methods of the past, ... We have the technology to power our future in ways that don't threaten our health or poison our planet. Let's choose to use it.” WayUsePastTechnologyPlanetsMethodPoisonFuelOur FutureOur Planet Author:Denis Hayes
“In my work, I am not attempting to predict the future. I am only pointing out what is possible with the intelligent application and humane use of science and technology. This does not call for scientists to manage society. What I suggest is applying the methods of science to the social system for the benefit of human kind and the environment.” HumansKindDoeUseSocialTechnologyEnvironmentBenefitsScientistIntelligentMethodManageApplicationPointingAttemptingHumaneScience And TechnologySocial SystemsUses Of Science Author:Jacque Fresco