Science is the reduction of the bewildering diversity of unique events to manageable uniformity within one of a number of symbol systems, and technology is the art of using thesesymbol systemssoastocontrol and organize unique events. Scientific observation is always a viewing of things through the refracting medium of a symbol system, and technological praxis is always handling of things in ways that some symbol system has dictated. Education in science and technology is essentially education on the symbol level.

-Huxley, Aldous Leonard
  In Daedalus, spring issue.

History teaches us that enmities between nations†do not last forever.Wemustconduct ouraffairsinsuchaway that it becomes in the communists' interests to agree on a genuine peace†to let each nation choose its own future, so long as that choice does not interfere with the choices of others. If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

-Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)
  Speech,  American University, Washington DC,10  Jun.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of those faculties is the first object of government.

-Madison,James
  The Federalist, Nov.

Thankstohis bodily formand thankstohismind, [man] is a universal machine, capable of an infinite diversity of movement.

-Redtenbacher, Ferdinand
  Resultate fur den Maschinenbau (published1848).