4 Thomas Carlyle Quotes on Technology

Thomas Carlyle quotes on technology

16. The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion.

38. He who first shortened the labor of copyists by device of movable types was disbanding hired armies, and cashiering most kings and senates, and creating a whole new democratic world: he had invented the art of printing.

39. Man is a tool-using animal...Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

61. Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity: men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.