MikeLynch
Just a Baker Street Muse
Inspired by Civ4's quotations for each tech advance, I decided to work in quotations for Civ2's advances in my next Test of Time mod. I'll probably just toss these in at the beginning of each Civilopedia entry, or perhaps at the end, since AFAIK there is no way to duplicate the thing in Civ4 where the quote is on the popup screen when you discover the tech.
My full list of advances (including some of my custom advances) is pasted below; the advances with no quote under them are those for which I haven't yet been able to come up with anything. I am open to suggestions, both for the advances I don't have quotes for and for those that I do, a lot of which are taken right from Civ4. Others I dug up and found to be perfect fits, others are so-so fits, while some others are just slightly goofy; fair warning.
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Advanced Flight
"I think it is well also for the man in the street to realize that there is no power on earth that can protect him from being bombed." Stanley Baldwin
Alphabet
"Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world." The Buddha
Amphibious Warfare
"Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots." Sun Tzu
Astronomy
"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another." Plato
Atomic Theory
"I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars." Sir Arthur Eddington
Automobile
"Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car." E. B. White
Banking
"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies." Thomas Jefferson
Bridge Building
"How well Horatius kept the bridge in the brave days of old." Lord Macaulay
Bronze Working
"It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair." Homer
Ceremonial Burial
"It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living." Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
Chemistry
"Chemistry means the difference between poverty and starvation and the abundant life." Robert Brent
Chivalry
"I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown." Homer
Code of Laws
"All men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law." Charles de Montesquieu
Combined Arms
Combustion
Communism
"Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work." Will Rogers
Computers
"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window." Steve Wozniak
Conscription
Construction
"And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings; Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains." Percy Bysshe Shelley
Corporation
"Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility." Ambrose Bierce
Currency
"Money can be exchanged for goods and services!" Homer Simpson
Democracy
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." Thomas Jefferson
Economics
"Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe." Albert Einstein
Electricity
"We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles." Thomas Edison
Electronics
Engineering
"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." Antoine de Saint-Exupry
Environmentalism
"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children." Native American Song
Espionage
"All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used." Sun Tzu
Explosives
Feudalism
"I will to my lord be true and faithful, and love all which he loves and shun all which he shuns." Anglo Saxon Oath of Fealty
Flight
"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return." Leonardo da Vinci
Theocracy
"It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics." Robert A. Heinlein
Fusion Power
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke
Genetic Engineering
"Soon it will be a sin for parents to have a child which carries the heavy burden of genetic disease." Bob Edwards
Guerrilla Warfare
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." John F. Kennedy
Gunpowder
"You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word." Al Capone
Horseback Riding
"If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup." Turkish proverb
Industrialization
"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible." Henry Ford
Invention
"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." Thomas Edison
Iron Working
"And I wish that I were not part of this generation of men, but had died before it came, or been born afterward. For here now is the age of iron." Hesiod
Labor Union
"The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better." Friedrich August von Hayek
Laser
Leadership
"The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources." Sun Tzu
Literacy,
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." Sir Francis Bacon
Machine Tools
"Deus ex machina." Menander
Magnetism
"The wisest men follow their own direction." Euripides
Map Making
Masonry
"It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls." Aristophanes
Mass Production
"People can have the Model T in any color - so long as it's black." Henry Ford
Mathematics
"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture." Bertrand Russell
Medicine
"As to diseases make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm." Hippocrates
Metallurgy
"The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky." Solomon Short
Miniaturization
Mobile Warfare
Monarchy
"A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king." Herodotus
Monotheism
"I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me." The Bible, Exodus
Mysticism
"A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time." George Iles
Navigation
"And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by." John Masefield
Nuclear Fission
"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, Destroyer of Worlds." J. Robert Oppenheimer, quoting the Bhagavad Gita
Nuclear Power
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke
Philosophy
"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language." Ludwig Wittgenstein
Physics
"All science is either physics or stamp collecting." Ernest Rutherford
Plastics
"I just want to say one word to you. Just one word: plastics." Calder Willingham, The Graduate
Printing Press
"What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind." Wendell Phillips
Polytheism
"Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth." Homer
Pottery
"Hath not the potter power over the clay, to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?" The Bible, Romans
Radio
"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about." Oscar Wilde
Railroad
Recycling
Refining
"One could argue that the defining truth of the luxury inherent in Western society is the ability to stand in a snowbank in Maine and enjoy a fresh pineapple from Hawaii." William Rivers Pitt
Refrigeration
"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Republic
"The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public." Robert F. Kennedy
Robotics
"The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do." B.F. Skinner
Rocketry
"The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot eternally live in a cradle." Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
Sanitation
"As one who long in populous city spent, where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe, among the pleasant villages and farms adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight." John Milton
Seafaring
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." T. S. Eliot
Space Flight
"If you had any balls, you'd say 'Oh, my God, what is that thing?' then scream and cut your mic." Michael Collins, suggesting what Neil Armstrong should say upon stepping onto the lunar surface
Stealth
Steam Engine
"You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I have no time for such nonsense." Napoleon, on Robert Fulton's steamship
Steel
Superconductor
Tactics
"The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain." Sun Tzu
Imperialism
"When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys." George Orwell
Theory of Gravity
"I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men." Sir Isaac Newton
Trade
"Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it." Publius Syrus
University
"There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance." Ali ibn Abi-Talib
Warrior Code
"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win." Sun-Tzu
Wheel
Writing
"True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read." Pliny the Elder
Future Technology
"The future will be better tomorrow." Dan Quayle
Fiber Optics
"There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere." Isaac Asimov
Grenades
"If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them." Jack Handey
Plate Mail
"Now thrive the armourers, and honour's thought reigns solely on the breast of every man." William Shakespeare
Jet Engine
Theology
"Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God." St. Augustine
Free Market
"The answer to any question starting, 'Why don't they-' is almost always, 'Money.'" Robert A. Heinlein
My full list of advances (including some of my custom advances) is pasted below; the advances with no quote under them are those for which I haven't yet been able to come up with anything. I am open to suggestions, both for the advances I don't have quotes for and for those that I do, a lot of which are taken right from Civ4. Others I dug up and found to be perfect fits, others are so-so fits, while some others are just slightly goofy; fair warning.
-------------------
Advanced Flight
"I think it is well also for the man in the street to realize that there is no power on earth that can protect him from being bombed." Stanley Baldwin
Alphabet
"Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world." The Buddha
Amphibious Warfare
"Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots." Sun Tzu
Astronomy
"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another." Plato
Atomic Theory
"I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars." Sir Arthur Eddington
Automobile
"Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car." E. B. White
Banking
"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies." Thomas Jefferson
Bridge Building
"How well Horatius kept the bridge in the brave days of old." Lord Macaulay
Bronze Working
"It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair." Homer
Ceremonial Burial
"It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living." Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
Chemistry
"Chemistry means the difference between poverty and starvation and the abundant life." Robert Brent
Chivalry
"I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown." Homer
Code of Laws
"All men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law." Charles de Montesquieu
Combined Arms
Combustion
Communism
"Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work." Will Rogers
Computers
"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window." Steve Wozniak
Conscription
Construction
"And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings; Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains." Percy Bysshe Shelley
Corporation
"Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility." Ambrose Bierce
Currency
"Money can be exchanged for goods and services!" Homer Simpson
Democracy
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." Thomas Jefferson
Economics
"Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe." Albert Einstein
Electricity
"We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles." Thomas Edison
Electronics
Engineering
"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." Antoine de Saint-Exupry
Environmentalism
"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children." Native American Song
Espionage
"All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used." Sun Tzu
Explosives
Feudalism
"I will to my lord be true and faithful, and love all which he loves and shun all which he shuns." Anglo Saxon Oath of Fealty
Flight
"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return." Leonardo da Vinci
Theocracy
"It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics." Robert A. Heinlein
Fusion Power
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke
Genetic Engineering
"Soon it will be a sin for parents to have a child which carries the heavy burden of genetic disease." Bob Edwards
Guerrilla Warfare
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." John F. Kennedy
Gunpowder
"You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word." Al Capone
Horseback Riding
"If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup." Turkish proverb
Industrialization
"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible." Henry Ford
Invention
"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." Thomas Edison
Iron Working
"And I wish that I were not part of this generation of men, but had died before it came, or been born afterward. For here now is the age of iron." Hesiod
Labor Union
"The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better." Friedrich August von Hayek
Laser
Leadership
"The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources." Sun Tzu
Literacy,
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." Sir Francis Bacon
Machine Tools
"Deus ex machina." Menander
Magnetism
"The wisest men follow their own direction." Euripides
Map Making
Masonry
"It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls." Aristophanes
Mass Production
"People can have the Model T in any color - so long as it's black." Henry Ford
Mathematics
"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture." Bertrand Russell
Medicine
"As to diseases make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm." Hippocrates
Metallurgy
"The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky." Solomon Short
Miniaturization
Mobile Warfare
Monarchy
"A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king." Herodotus
Monotheism
"I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me." The Bible, Exodus
Mysticism
"A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time." George Iles
Navigation
"And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by." John Masefield
Nuclear Fission
"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, Destroyer of Worlds." J. Robert Oppenheimer, quoting the Bhagavad Gita
Nuclear Power
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke
Philosophy
"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language." Ludwig Wittgenstein
Physics
"All science is either physics or stamp collecting." Ernest Rutherford
Plastics
"I just want to say one word to you. Just one word: plastics." Calder Willingham, The Graduate
Printing Press
"What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind." Wendell Phillips
Polytheism
"Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth." Homer
Pottery
"Hath not the potter power over the clay, to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?" The Bible, Romans
Radio
"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about." Oscar Wilde
Railroad
Recycling
Refining
"One could argue that the defining truth of the luxury inherent in Western society is the ability to stand in a snowbank in Maine and enjoy a fresh pineapple from Hawaii." William Rivers Pitt
Refrigeration
"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Republic
"The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public." Robert F. Kennedy
Robotics
"The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do." B.F. Skinner
Rocketry
"The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot eternally live in a cradle." Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
Sanitation
"As one who long in populous city spent, where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe, among the pleasant villages and farms adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight." John Milton
Seafaring
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." T. S. Eliot
Space Flight
"If you had any balls, you'd say 'Oh, my God, what is that thing?' then scream and cut your mic." Michael Collins, suggesting what Neil Armstrong should say upon stepping onto the lunar surface
Stealth
Steam Engine
"You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I have no time for such nonsense." Napoleon, on Robert Fulton's steamship
Steel
Superconductor
Tactics
"The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain." Sun Tzu
Imperialism
"When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys." George Orwell
Theory of Gravity
"I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men." Sir Isaac Newton
Trade
"Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it." Publius Syrus
University
"There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance." Ali ibn Abi-Talib
Warrior Code
"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win." Sun-Tzu
Wheel
Writing
"True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read." Pliny the Elder
Future Technology
"The future will be better tomorrow." Dan Quayle
Fiber Optics
"There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere." Isaac Asimov
Grenades
"If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them." Jack Handey
Plate Mail
"Now thrive the armourers, and honour's thought reigns solely on the breast of every man." William Shakespeare
Jet Engine
Theology
"Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God." St. Augustine
Free Market
"The answer to any question starting, 'Why don't they-' is almost always, 'Money.'" Robert A. Heinlein
