Quotes About Control

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.

The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science.

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.

Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.

Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.

It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.

Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.

If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control.

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, 'In such and such circumstances, what would you do?', whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

The people - could you patent the sun ?

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.

Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course.

Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.

The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research.

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine

The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.

The inefficiency of political control of an economy has been demonstrated more often, in more places, and under more varied conditions, than almost anything outside the realm of pure science.

If the world is turning, even the church can't stop it; if it isn't turning, nobody can go out and make it turn.