I “grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines... [but I have] seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve . . . We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow . . . Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians."
Note: From Lindbergh's book written in the wake of the atomic bomb and World War II, Of Flight and Life. It is Lindbergh’s impassioned warning against the dangers of scientific materialism and the powers of technology.