Ernst Friedrich (Fritz) Schumacker
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Science Quotes by Ernst Friedrich (Fritz) Schumacker (4 quotes)
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
— Ernst Friedrich (Fritz) Schumacker
Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a denial of wisdom. Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology tow
— Ernst Friedrich (Fritz) Schumacker
I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. To go
— Ernst Friedrich (Fritz) Schumacker
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
— Ernst Friedrich (Fritz) Schumacker