TECHNOLOGY
Acoustics
"Their rising all at once was as the sound of a thunder heard remote."
--Milton
Advanced Ballistics
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?"
--Tom Hehrer
Agriculture
"Where tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization."
--Daniel Webster
Animal Husbandry
"Thou salt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn."
--The Bible, Deuteronomy, 25:4
Archaeology
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
--George Santayana
Archery
"The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction."
--Aesop
Astronomy
"Joyfully to the breeze royal Odysseus spread his sail, and with his rudder skillfully he steered."
--Homer
Atomic Theory
"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophes."
--Albert Einstein
Banking
"Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion."
--Jean Jacques Rousseau
Biology
"If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't."
--Lyall Watson
Bronze Working
"Here Hector entered, with a spear eleven cubits long in his hand; the bronze point gleamed in front of him, and was fastened to the shaft of the spear by a ring of gold."
--Homer
Calendar
"So teach us to number our days, so that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom."
--The Bible, Psalms, 90:12
Chemistry
"Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation."
--Calvin Coolidge
Chivalry
"Who pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil, is rightwise king born of all England"
--Malory
Civil Service
"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency."
--Eugene McCarthy
Combustion
"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
--Albert Einstein
Compass
"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
Computers
"Computer are like Old Testament gods: lots of rules and no mercy."
--Joseph Campbell
Construction
"Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed."
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Currency
"Better is bread with a happy heart/Than wealth with vexation."
--Amenemope
Dynamite
"As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy."
--Christopher Dawson
Economics
"Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe."
--Albert Einstein
Ecology
"Only within the moment of time represented by the present century as one species, man, acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world."
--Rachel Carson
Education
"Education is the best provision for old age."
--Aristotle
Electricity
"Is it a fact - or have I dreamt it - that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?"
--Nathaniel Hawthorne
Electronics
"There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time."
--Trip Hawkins
Engineering
"Instrumental or mechanical sciencce is the noblest and, above all others, the most useful."
--Leonardo da Vinci
Fertilizer
"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Flight
"Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle."
--Igor Sikorsky
Future Tech
"I think we all agree, the past is over."
--George W. Bush
Globalization
"The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village."
--Marshall McLuhan
Gunpowder
"The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops."
--Alfred Nobel
Horseback Riding
"My kingdom for a horse!"
--Shakespeare (Richard III)
Iron Working
"Do not wait to strike 'til the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."
--William Butler Yeats
Lasers
"The night is far spent, the day is at hand; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light."
--The Holy Bible: Romans, 13:12
Machinery
"The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being."
--Thomas Jefferson
Masonry
"How happy are those whose walls already rise!"
--Virgil
Mass Media
"The speed of communication is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue."
--Edward R. Murrow
Mathematics
"Mathematics is the gate and key to the sciences."
--Roger Bacon
Metal Casting
"When pieces of bronze or gold or iron break, the metal-smith welds them together again in the fire, and the bond is established."
--Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Metallurgy
"There never was a good knife made of bad steel."
--Benjamin Franklin
Military Science
"Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory."
--George S. Patton
Mining
"The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights."
--J. Paul Getty
Nanotechnology
"The impact of nanotechnology is expected to exceed the impact the electronics revolution has had on our lives."
--Richard Schwartz
Navigation
"The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."
--Edward Gibbon
Nuclear Fission
"I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
--J. Robert Oppenheimer
Nuclear Fusion
"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."
--Albert Einstein
Optics
"He made an instrument to know/If the moon shine at full or no."
--Samuel Butler
Particle Physics
"Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances."
--Isaac Newton
Penicillin
"In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men."
--Cicero
Philosophy
"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."
--Socrates
Physics
"Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so."
--Galileo
Plastics
"Ben, I want to say one word to you, just one word: plastics."
--Buck Henry and Calder Willingham, The Graduate
Pottery
"Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?"
--The Bible, Isaiah, 45:9
Printing Press
"It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell."
--The Chicago Times
Radar
"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible."
--Jonathan Swift
Radio
"The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants."
--Woody Allen
Railroad
"The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam to a carriage on wheels will make a great change in the situation of man."
--Thomas Jefferson
Refrigeration
"And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, and near a thousand tables pined and wanted food."
--William Wordsworth
Replaceable Parts
"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."
--Henry Ford
Rifling
"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it."
--Robert E. Lee
Robotics
"1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law."
--Isaac Asimov
Rocketry
"A good rule for rocket experimenters to follow is this: always assume that it will explode."
--Astronautics Magazine, 1937
Sailing
"He who commands the sea has command of everything."
--Themistocles
Satellites
"Now, somehow, in some new way, the sky seemed almost alien."
--Lyndon B. Johnson
Scientific Theory
"Every great advance in science has issues from a new audacity of imagination."
--John Dewey
Stealth
"Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate."
--Sun Tzu
Steam Power
"The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communications all the world will become as one family."
--Townsend Harris
Steel
"John Henry said to his Captain: 'A man ain't nothin' but a man,/And before I'll let your steam drill beat me down,/I'll die with the hammer in my hand."
--Anonymous: The Ballad of John Henry, the Steel-Drivin' Man
Telegraph
"I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately."
--Mark Twain
Theology
"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do."
--St. Thomas Aquinas
Trapping
"Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall for the same traps or nets twice."
--Saint Jerome
The Wheel
"Wisdom and virtue are like the two wheels of a cart."
--Japanese Proverb
Writing
"He who destroys a good book kills reason itself."
--John Milton
