“Maybe civilization will collapse, we’ll all succumb to disease and famine, and the last of us will be eaten by cats. Maybe we’ll all be killed by nanobots hours after you read this sentence. There’s no way to know.”— Randall Munroe, amazon.com
“I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“But ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of the underlying order in the world. Today we still yearn to know why we are here and where we come from. Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is…”— Stephen Hawking, amazon.com
“What is civilization if it isn’t people talking to each other over a goddamned beer?”— James S.A. Corey, books.google.com
“Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Ultimately, here is the choice we face: we can either make the solution to the climate crisis the central organizing principle of global civilization— or the hostile conditions we are creating will grow rapidly worse, thickening the smothering blanket of global warming pollution surrounding our plan…”— Al Gore, amazon.com