2. “Our age is eminently mechanical. We travel from one place to another at relatively monstrous speeds; we speak to eachother over great distances, and we fight our enemies with amazing efficiency- all by the aid of mechanical contrivances.” -William Shockley, 1927
7. “Soon shall they arm, UNCONQUER’D STEAM! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or wide-waving wings expanded bear They flying chariot through the fields of air.” -Erasmus Darwin, 1789
10. “…those to whom the harmonious doors Of Science have unbarred celestial shores, To whom a burning energy has given That other eye which darts thro earth and heaven” -William Wordsworth ‘An Evening Walk’
12. “…revolution would come not through technology itself but through class struggle between the capitalists who owned and controlled steam engines and machinery and the exploted industrial proletariat who worked them.” (91)
13. “Nature builds no machines, no locomotives, railways, electric telegraphs… etc. These are products of human industry: natural material transformed into instruments of the human will.” (91)
19. “The mutual action and reaction of the makers or leaders of opinion upon the mass, and of the mass upon them was the most curious part of the whole process by which the formation of opinion is produced.” -James Bryce, 1900
