There is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstrips the necessary ethical considerations.
PRINCE CHARLESYou have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.
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It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything – until, that is, it comes to climate science.
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Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
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There is very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land.
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All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
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Forests are the world’s air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.
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If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
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As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.
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I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
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To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
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I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.
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My Rainforests Project has three main elements. Firstly, to determine how much funding the rainforest countries need to re-orientate their economies so that the trees are worth more alive than dead.
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It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.
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The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa – slightly off balance.
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I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.
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