Famous quotes containing the words trowbridge and/or population:
“And this is the moralStick to your sphere,
Or if you insist, as you have a right,
On spreading your wings for a loftier flight,
The moral isTake care how you light.”
—John Townsend Trowbridge (18271916)
“What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough ... had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.”
—Archibald MacLeish (18921982)