“That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination, our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We've become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.” Has BeensFactsAgePlanetsRevolutionAchievementDeterminationStonesSpeciesEmptinessDigitalFloodMagnificentNothingnessIndustrial RevolutionGreat AchievementStone Age Author:Alan Lightman
“No technological achievements can mitigate the disappointment of modern man, his loneliness, his feeling of inferiority, and his fear of war, revolution and terror. Not only has our generation lost faith in Providence but also in man himself, in his institutions and often in those who are nearest to him.” MenWarFeelingsLostGenerationsModernLonelinessRevolutionAchievementInstitutionsTerrorDisappointmentProvidenceTechnologicalInferiorityOur GenerationModern ManLost Faith Book:Aspects of I.B. Singer Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer
“The great scientific achievements are research programmes which can be evaluated in terms of progressive and degenerative problemshifts; and scientific revolutions consist of one research programme superceding (overtaking in progress) another. This methodology offers a new rational reconstruction of science.” ScienceTermProgressRevolutionOffersAchievementResearchRationalProgressiveProgrammesReconstructionMethodologyScientific RevolutionOvertaking Author:Imre Lakatos
“Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.” DoeRevolutionDependsAchievementSovereignty Author:Fidel Castro
“The scientific and societal achievements of the modern age are undisputable. But after the French Revolution, modernity increasingly emancipated itself from Christian roots, thereby becoming rootless itself.” AgeChristianModernRevolutionBecomingAchievementRootsModernityFrench RevolutionModern Age Author:Walter Kasper
“In our Revolution we believe that we have broken the chain of a consumer economy based on imports, and we are free to decide our destiny . And in order to realize the interests of the Somali people, their achievement of a better life, the full development of their potentialities and the fulfilment of their aspirations, we solemnly declare Somalia to be a Socialist State.” PeopleBelieveStatesOrderInterestRealizingDestinyEconomyBrokenRevolutionDevelopmentAchievementChainsConsumersAspirationSocialistBetter LifeOur DestinyImportsFulfilmentSomaliaSomali Author:Siad Barre
“My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made. This is one of the reasons why I feel certain that of all my inventions, the Magnifying Transmitter will prove most important and valuable to future generations. I am prompted to this prediction not so much by thoughts of the commercial and industrial revolution which it will surely bring about, but of the humanitarian consequences of the many achievements it makes possible. Considerations of mere utility weigh little in the balance against the higher benefits of civilization.” FeelsLittlesMadeImportantReasonLawCertainBeliefGenerationsSacrificeHard WorkRevolutionBalanceHigherCivilizationProveAchievementBenefitsConsequenceLaborMereRewardsValuableHumanitarianInventionFirmReason WhyProportionConsiderationPredictionsCompensationFuture GenerationUtilityIndustrial RevolutionMagnifying Book:My Inventions: [Illustrated & Biography Added] Source: My Inventions: [Illustrated & Biography Added]