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Everything I've been reading lately from novels to school books has been revolving around this same theme. Its funny, when you start thinking about something you start seeing (or noticing) it everywhere. Here's a few quotes from 3 different things I started reading last week:
Queen: I will try the forces
Of these thy compounds on such creatures as
We count not worth the hangings
But none Human...
Cornelius: Your Highness
Shall from this practice but
make hard your heart
-Shakespeare's Cymbeline
"The Thought would probably have been more amplified, had our author (Shakespeare) lived to be shocked with such experiments as have been published in later times. By a race of men that have practiced tortures without pity, and related them without shame, and are yet suffered to erect their heads among human beings"
-Dr. Johnson
(Both of the above quotes are from the prologue of Richard Adams novel The Plague Dogs, the second quote is in reaction to the first)
"The Problem is not our effect on the environment so much as our relationship with the environment... The Transformation of the way we relate to the earth will of course involve new technologies, but the key changes will involve new ways of thinking about the relationship itself."
- Al Gore (Ships in the Desert from Earth in the Balance)
"It is not science itself that has "exploited" nature. Again science just tries to describe and explain how things work. Early versions of science often just tried to understand things out of pure wonder, not out of an attempt to manipulate the environment. It's the applications of science that have caused the problems. In other words, the problem has been more a problem of values than a problem of science."
- George Feund (Philosophy, Science and the Environment)
Queen: I will try the forces
Of these thy compounds on such creatures as
We count not worth the hangings
But none Human...
Cornelius: Your Highness
Shall from this practice but
make hard your heart
-Shakespeare's Cymbeline
"The Thought would probably have been more amplified, had our author (Shakespeare) lived to be shocked with such experiments as have been published in later times. By a race of men that have practiced tortures without pity, and related them without shame, and are yet suffered to erect their heads among human beings"
-Dr. Johnson
(Both of the above quotes are from the prologue of Richard Adams novel The Plague Dogs, the second quote is in reaction to the first)
"The Problem is not our effect on the environment so much as our relationship with the environment... The Transformation of the way we relate to the earth will of course involve new technologies, but the key changes will involve new ways of thinking about the relationship itself."
- Al Gore (Ships in the Desert from Earth in the Balance)
"It is not science itself that has "exploited" nature. Again science just tries to describe and explain how things work. Early versions of science often just tried to understand things out of pure wonder, not out of an attempt to manipulate the environment. It's the applications of science that have caused the problems. In other words, the problem has been more a problem of values than a problem of science."
- George Feund (Philosophy, Science and the Environment)