“Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.” PeopleTodayIndividualLossEnvironmentViolenceInformationIdentityPlanetsRevolutionElectricTestingExtinctionPromptsReassuranceRediscoveryLoss Of Identity Author:Marshall McLuhan
“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
“Hence I feel no shame in asserting that this whole region engirdled by the moon, and the center of the earth, traverse this grand circle amid the rest of the planets in an annual revolution around the sun. Near the sun is the center of the universe. Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.” FeelsWholeEarthUniverseSunPlanetsRevolutionMoonShameRemainsDuesCirclesRegionsAnnualsCenter Of The UniverseStationaryTraverse Book:Nicholas Copernicus on the revolutions Source: Nicholas Copernicus on the revolutions
“The further conquest of space will make it possible, for example, to create systems of satellites making daily revolutions around our planet at an altitude of some 40,000 kilometers, and to assure universal communications and the relaying of radio and television transmissions. Such an arrangement might prove more useful, economically, than the construction of radio relay systems over the whole surface of the earth. The great accuracy of movement of these satellites will provide a reliable basis for solving navigational problems” WholeProblemMightEarthSpaceExampleMovementTelevisionPlanetsCommunicationRevolutionProveUniversalBasesRadioSurfaceConstructionArrangementsConquestOur PlanetAccuracySatellitesTransmissionRelays Author:Sergei Korolev
“On how the motion of a planet defines its sphere: ... and thus it comes about gradually by the linking and accumulation of a great many revolutions that a kind of concave sphere is displayed, having the same center as the Sun, just as by a great many circles of silken thread, linked with each other and wound together, the dwelling of a silkworm is made.” KindMadeTogetherSunPlanetsRevolutionWoundsCirclesGreat MenSpheresThreadLinkedAccumulationDwelling Author:Johannes Kepler
“Perhaps the rediscovery of our humanity, and the potential of the human spirit which we have read about in legends of older civilizations, or in accounts of solitary mystics, or in tales of science fiction writers - perhaps this will constitute the true revolution of the future. The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.” HumansSpiritLyingHumanityFictionPlanetsRevolutionCivilizationAccountsScience FictionTalesLegendsSolitaryHuman SpiritFrontiersFiction WritersNew FrontiersRediscovery Author:Pierre Trudeau
“Conditions have changed, but we are still operating financially by the rules established during the Industrial Revolution-rules based on creating more material possessions. But our high standard of living has not led to a high quality of life-for us or for the planet.” StillsQualityConditionsChangedPlanetsMaterialsRevolutionCreatingStandardsPossessionQuality Of LifeStandards Of LivingHigh QualityHigh StandardsIndustrial RevolutionMaterial Possessions Author:Joseph R. Dominguez
“My analysis, especially of the computer revolution, always comes back to capitalism. It's that economic system that has led to Western civilization's willingness to enslave ourselves to machines - because some people benefit enormously from it, while the costs are borne by other people and the planet.” PeopleEconomicPlanetsRevolutionCivilizationCostBenefitsComputerCapitalismMachinesWesternAnalysisWillingnessWestern CivilizationEconomic Systems Author:Kirkpatrick Sale
“The not-quite-sort-of lie works here too - often an ad will announce that "Congressman Johnson voted for a bill that gave tax breaks to companies like Enron." True - although the bill allowed all companies to accelerate depreciation of copying machines. Yes, Enron benefited, but Enron also benefited from the revolution of the Earth around the sun. Hardly an argument to freeze the planet in one spot.” EarthLyingCompanyBreakSunPlanetsRevolutionTaxesArgumentMachinesBillsSpotsAdsJohnsonFreezeCongressmanCopyingAccelerateTax BreaksEnronDepreciation Author:James Lileks
“I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived. And a revolution has some sense of a long time frame, millions of years that we've been evolving on this planet.” ThinkingYearsLongMillionsPlanetsRevolutionLong TimeAriseEvolveRebellionShort Lived Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.” WorldStarsPlanetsRevolutionDelayDetoursSaturn Book:One-Way Street and Other Writings Source: One-Way Street and Other Writings
“Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other suns are kindled, new planets formed to make their revolutions or describe new orbits, and man, an infinitely minute part of a globe which itself is only an imperceptible point in the immense whole, believes that the universe is made for himself.” MenBelieveMadeWholeReligionUniverseSunSkyMinutesPlanetsRevolutionWasteImmenseGlobesOrbit Author:Baron d'Holbach
“What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping out other species, spoiling our nest. Yet on every continent a revolution in human dignity is emerging. It is re-knitting community and our ties to the earth. So we do have a choice. We can choose death; or we can choose life.” PeopleFirstsHumansRealEarthTimeChoicesCommunityAlivePlanetsRevolutionDignitySpeciesExtraordinaryKillingTiesContinentsOur PlanetEmergingNestsHuman DignityBiodiversityKnittingKilling Each OtherChoose LifeWiping Out Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a new paradigm, scientists adopt new instruments and look in new places. even more important, during revolutions, scientists see new and different things when looking with familiar instruments in places they have looked before. It is rather as if the professional community had been suddenly transported to another planet where familiar objects are seen in a different light and are joined by unfamiliar ones as well.” IfsWorldWellsLooksMayImportantDifferentLightScienceCommunityObjectsPlanetsRevolutionScientistAccountsClaimsInstrumentsFamiliarTemptationChanging The WorldDifferent ThingsHistorianTemptedParadigmUnfamiliarNew Places Author:Thomas Kuhn