The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help us work through.
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.
The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
Civilization is the making of civil persons.
Nature made the fields and man the cities.
I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.
Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.