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Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron frame of the hearth, the black cooking pots and pans and stoves. Was it a

Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron frame of the hearth, the black cooking pots and pans and stoves. Was it a mourning? Was it protective coloration? Was it mere depression of the senses? No matter what the original color of the paleotechnic milieu might be it was soon reduced by reason of the soot and cinders that accompanied its activities, to its characteristic tones, grey, dirty-brown, black.

Lewis Mumford
Dirty, Heart, Science
Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.163, University of Chicago Press

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.

Lewis Mumford
Positive, Science, Technology
"Technics and Civilization". Book by Lewis Mumford. Chapter 8, section 13, 1934.

The artist does not illustrate science; ... [but] he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does, and expresses by a visual synthesis what the scientist converts into analytical formulae or experimental demonstrations.

Lewis Mumford
Science, Artist, Expression
"Revolt in the Arts: A Survey of the Creation, Distribution and Appreciation of Art in America". Book by Oliver Martin Sayler, p. 117, 1930.

By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.

Lewis Mumford
Success, Science, Men
"The Conduct Of Life". Book by Lewis Mumford, 1951.

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