Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. – Lewis Mumford
Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet. – Lewis Mumford
Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act. – Lewis Mumford
A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility. – Lewis Mumford
So someday in the near future hopefully rather than having a foot or a leg amputated well just give you an injection of the cells and restore the blood flow. Weve also created entire tubes of red blood cells from scratch in the laboratory. So there are a lot of exciting things in the pipeline. – Robert Lanza