Top 1200 Industrial Revolution Quotes & Sayings

When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution.

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or 'improving' nature, this respectful imitation is a radically new approach, a revolution really. Unlike the Industrial Revolution, the Biomimicry Revolution introduces an era based not on what we can extract from nature, but on what we can learn from her.

Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution.

We're living through the second Industrial Revolution.

Mankind had the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, and now this third one, the information revolution.

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.

The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant.

The creation of millions of secure, well-paid jobs must be at the forefront of any Green Industrial Revolution.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution does not just entail risks: it also brings solutions to humanitarian problems.

The new course we're on at Interface ... is to pioneer the next Industrial Revolution: one that is kinder and gentler to the earth.

Every industrial revolution brings along a learning revolution.

I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.

The white man knows what a revolution is. He knows that the Black Revolution is worldwide in scope and in nature. The Black Revolution is sweeping Asia, is sweeping Africa, is rearing its head in Latin America. The Cuban Revolution - that's a revolution. They overturned the system. Revolution is in Asia, revolution is in Africa, and the white man is screaming because he sees revolution in Latin America. How do you think he'll react to you when you learn what a real revolution is?

The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again.

We needed overtime laws, we needed unionization, we needed to figure out how to distribute the Industrial Revolution's gains with equity, and we're going through something similar with the technology revolution.

My government has taken significant measures to enable the rise of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in our country.

A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way.

A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. And you, sitting around here like a knot on the wall, saying, “I’m going to love these folks no matter how much they hate me.” No, you need a revolution. Whoever heard of a revolution where they lock arms, as Reverend Cleage was pointing out beautifully, singing “We Shall Overcome”? Just tell me. You don’t do that in a revolution. You don’t do any singing; you’re too busy swinging.

To join in the industrial revolution, you needed to open a factory; in the Internet revolution, you need to open a laptop.

Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.

One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.

But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.

The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution - moving from hunter-gathering to farming - and the Industrial Revolution

I am grateful to the fossil fuel industry for bringing us the concentrated carbon that took us through the Industrial Revolution and through the technological revolution and brought us to the gateway of the renewable energy revolution, or what I call the sunlight revolution. But that is where we must part ways. It's the natural order.

Technology is the future, I have seen the third industrial revolution, and we are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution.

The cost reductions for renewable energy continue downward in a very dramatic way. We're in the early stages of a sustainability revolution in the globe that has the scale of the industrial revolution but the speed of the digital revolution. And you see it with renewable energy and you see it with LED lighting, which takes a fraction of the energy for the existing bulbs. All new lights are going to be LED. Electric vehicles. There are a lot of changes underway right now. I'm excited by the prospect, and I look forward to working in the months and years to come to accelerate this transition.

The industrial revolution fueled all of humanity, everything we do has been exploding ever since. It's been the biggest most impacting thing, not only for human beings in the last 250 million years, but also the planet, which caused the ice age, which buried the forest. It's this circle because of the industrial revolution, it's neither good or bad, it enabled all of modernization, extended our life, it changed everything. It's the most impactful thing that happened to the planet and the people.

Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we're now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job.

The industrial revolution took the father out of the home and put the kids in school. And then everyone had their own little scene.

I don't. We've had three technological revolutions that have changed the course of human history, all driven by physics. In the first, the industrial revolution, physicists developed Newtonian mechanics and thermodynamics, which gave us the steam engine and machine power. The second technological revolution was the electricity revolution. That gave us radio, television, and telecommunications. Then, physicists developed the laser and the transistor.

If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

The industrial revolution allowed us, for the first time, to start replacing human labour with machines.

It's the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity.

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

For our part, Africa will make a significant contribution to the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

I have a personal staff that helps me scour the internet and other media for the latest scientific peer-reviewed findings, the latest examples of climate-related extreme weather events, and the latest examples of progress. The world is in the midst of a sustainability revolution that has the scope of the industrial revolution, but with the speed of the digital revolution. That's not enough without new laws and the right kind of political leadership. But it does give us a base from which to build a movement that will save us from the most catastrophic consequences of the climate crisis.

As a technologist, I see how AI and the fourth industrial revolution will impact every aspect of people's lives.

Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.

I think that human beings have gotten as far as we've gotten because of our adaptability, our ability to adapt, and our ability to dovetail our technologies - our brains to our tools. With the Industrial Revolution, we transcended the limits of our muscles. With the digital revolution, we transcend the limits of our minds.

There is no question that automation is - and has been since the start of the Industrial Revolution - displacing workers and creating disruption within the economy and labor market.

National boundaries these days are not that important because of transformative technological development. Now we are talking about the fourth industrial revolution.

We led the industrial revolution, the White revolution, now its time for a cultural revolution.

Because I had visited Silicon Valley, I recognized the microprocessor was going to lead the second industrial revolution. We Chinese could not miss that opportunity again - we missed the first industrial revolution already. We put our effort into trying to bring this new technology from the United States to Taiwan. That was the begining of Acer.

However, the agricultural revolution took thousands of years, the Industrial Revolution took hundreds, and the information revolution only took decades. So, who knows what's going to happen in the next few decades, especially with the women's revolution.

Fourth industrial revolution is a deadly combination of technology and Internet of Things.

When the industrial revolution happened there was the Luddistic movement, and there was a fear that machinery would replace all the labor. Whenever we had a technological revolution we had this fear. So if you look backwards, these fears were not justified, and I think they were driven by our very human inability to visualize what new jobs will be created by this new technology.

The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution.

The information revolution has changed people's perception of wealth. We originally said that land was wealth. Then we thought it was industrial production. Now we realize it's intellectual capital. The market is showing us that intellectual capital is far more important that money. This is a major change in the way the world works. the same thing that happened to the farmers during the Industrial Revolution is now happening to people in industry as we move into the information age.

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

If our era is the next Industrial Revolution, as many claim, AI is surely one of its driving forces.

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

I'm very interested in the new industrial revolution, what we do in terms of energy, developing the north, ensuring there are jobs and that kind of vision.

I was an active participant in India's key economic reforms, including the third industrial revolution and now the fourth industrial revolution.

When the Industrial Revolution started, the amount of carbon sitting underneath Britain in the form of coal was as big as the amount of carbon sitting under Saudi Arabia in the form of oil, and this carbon powered the Industrial Revolution, it put the 'Great' in Great Britain, and led to Britain's temporary world domination.

The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution.

Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution.

Harris Tweed as been around since before the Industrial Revolution when it was a handmade cloth from the Outer Hebrides in Scotland.