#civilization

And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming to an end. ↗

— Iain Pears

#friendship #dreams

Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized civilization, but to assign primary responsibility to oneself, and to focus primarily on making oneself better, is an immense copout, an abrogation of responsibility. ↗

— Derrick Jensen

#civilization #industrialization #mitigate #responsibility #lifestyle

Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology. ↗

— Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#geology #science #western-civilization #catholicism

The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli. ↗

— Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#science #western-civilization #catholicism

Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory. ↗

— Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#science #western-civilization #catholicism

Coffee - the favorite drink of the civilized world. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#civilization

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

— Shimon Peres

#civilization #invention #know #mirror #you

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

The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era. ↗

— Story Musgrave

#advanced #because #been #beings #certainty

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#balance #certain #civilization #civilized #civilized man