#civilization

I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#before #civilizations #even #first #flawed

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#begin #civilization #either #else #few

Speech is civilization itself. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#itself #speech

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. ↗

— David Hare

#civilization #tendency #towards #ultimate

You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#civilization #invention #know #mirror #you

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#arranged #civilization #crucial #depend #elements

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. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#based #civilization #continue #found #mankind

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it. ↗

— James Norman Hall

#decays #suffers

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants. ↗

— Robert Millikan

#consists #human #multiplication #refinement #wants

By the time of the arrival of Islam in the early seventeenth century CE, what we now call the Middle East was divided between the Persian and Byzantine empires. But with the spread of this new religion from Arabia, a powerful empire emerged, and with it a flourishing civilization and a glorious golden age. Given how far back it stretches in time, the history of the region -- and even of Iraq itself -- is too big a canvas for me to paint. Instead, what I hope to do in this book is take on the nonetheless ambitious task of sharing with you a remarkable story; one of an age in which great geniuses pushed the frontiers of knowledge to such an extent that their work shaped civilizations to this day. ↗

— Jim Al-Khalili

#civilization #islam #knowledge #middle-east #age