This is an age that has produced floods of how-to-do-it books, and it is also an age of how-to-do-it science. It is, in other words, the age of technology, in which if we know how to do something, we do it without pausing to inquire whether we should.

— Rachel Carson, Speech at Scripps College (1962)

From her June 1962 speech at Scripps College.

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