"The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built."
"Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us are miraculous tools until we have mastered the humane, cultural use of them? We do not want to live in a world where the machine has mastered the man; we want to live in a world where man has mastered the machine."
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Source: The Duality of Vision: Genius and Versatility in the Arts. Book by Walter Sorrell, p. 28, 1970.
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