#logical

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#bacteria #cells #colony #creatures #each

Chemical and biological attacks are scary and will kill a lot of people but don't rise to the level of nuclear. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#biological #chemical #kill #level #lot

I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way. ↗

— Jack Dee

#bible #cling #closer #commentaries #contented

I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we got a deal on the system. But with that comes all sorts of technological problems I couldn't begin to describe. ↗

— Griffin Dunne

#begin #comes #cut #deal #describe

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#capacity #change #future #limited #man

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#also #effects #hazards #increase #our

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#events #i #i think #instead #more

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#singularity #technological #will

In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#changed #changes #focus #great #had

There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating. ↗

— George Wald

#having #ideological #material #nothing #nuclear