Tag: human agency
8 quotes
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“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
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We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of selfish replicators.
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When it comes to rolling climate change, total control, at least, may be an illusion, although one on which we have intuitively erected our hopes for navigating a hotter future.
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The biggest problems facing the world today are not at all beyond our control, rather they are all of our own making, and entirely in our power to deal with.
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The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.
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Unlike most of the sciences, astronomy is always done at a distance. You can see the stars, but you can’t do anything about them. Sometimes the media would like us to believe that we’re all astronomers, simply passive witnesses in a world out…
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We are as gods and might as well get good at it
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The overestimation of technology is closely connected with the underestimation of humans.