Quotes by Mumford, Lewis

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they f >>

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy i >>

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical e >>

Quotations about Machinery

The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movemen >>

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but >>

Nothing is less instructive than a machine. >>

The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon.

Mumford, Lewis