This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
It is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity.
Humanity | Technology |
Many of our culture's most important achievements in the arts, science, and technology were made by people who had breakthrough insights in dreams, visions, intuitive flashbacks, and altered states of consciousness. And yet our society generally discounts such experiences, sometimes even treating them as grounds for a diagnosis of mental illness.
Consciousness | Culture | Dreams | Important | People | Science | Society | Technology | Society |
Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and medicine improve.
Art | Technology | Time |
Art changes all the time, but it never “improves.” It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology, and medicine improves.
Art | Technology | Time |
Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconscious with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.
Change | Consciousness | Dreams | Future | History | Individual | Memory | Myth | Past | Revenge | Science | Technology | Tradition | Will |
Arthur C Clarke, formally Sir Arthur Charles Clark
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Magic | Technology |
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release; the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure; the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cue, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
Taking medicine is often only making a new disease to cure or hide the old one.
Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey
Get busy, keep busy. It is the cheapest kind of medicine there is on earth - and one of the best.
Earth |
Man started out as a "weak thing of the world" and evolved "to confound the things that are mighty." And within the human species, too, the weak often develop aptitudes and devises which enable them not only to survive but to prevail over the strong. Indeed, the formidableness of the human species stems from the survival of its weak. Were it not for the compassion that moves us to care for the sick, the crippled, and the old there would probably would have been neither culture or civilization. The crippled warrior who had to stay behind while the manhood of the tribe went out to war was the storyteller, teacher, and artisan. The old and the sick had a hand in the development of the arts of healing and of cooking. One thinks of the venerable sage, the unhinged medicine man, the epileptic prophet, the blind bard, and the witty hunchback and dwarf.
Care | Civilization | Compassion | Culture | Man | Survival | War | World | Old |
One wonders whether a generation that demands satisfaction of all its needs and instant solutions of the world's problems will produce anything of lasting value. Such a generation, even when equipped with the most modern technology, will be essentially primitive - it will stand in awe of nature, and submit to the tutelage of medicine men.
Reproof is a medicine like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.