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We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine, and now the machine is reinventing us.
Aldous Huxley — Ends and Means
The true paradox of the machine is that it was created to serve man, yet it has enslaved him to its rhythms and demands; we have made ourselves the appendages of our own inventions.
Lewis Mumford — Technics and Civilization
The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would have remained unchanged since the earliest days; no evolution, no mankind, nothing.
Lewis Thomas — The Medusa and the Snail