Civilization VI Technologies

Ancient Era

"No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune."

None

 

"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."

None

 

"When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging."

None

 

"It is not that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better."

Found a city on the coast

 

"I don't believe in _______; I'm a Sagittarius and we're sceptical."

Find a Natural Wonder

 

"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."

Farm a resource

 

"_____ is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words."

Meet another civilization

 

"I shot an arrow into the air. It fell to earth, I knew not where."

Kill a unit with a Slinger

 

"Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves."

Build a Quarry

 

"I’m also interested in creating a lasting legacy … because _____ will last for thousands of years."

Kill 3 Barbarians

 

"Don't reinvent the ____, just realign it."

Mine a resource

Classical Era

"And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by."

Improve 2 Sea Resources

 

"Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort."

Make a Trade Route

 

"No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle."

Build a Pasture

 

"The Lord made us all out of ____. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel."

Build an Iron Mine

 

"There is nothing but a plank between a sailor and eternity."

Own 2 Galleys

 

"If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with ________."

Build 3 Specialty Districts

 

"The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl."

Build a Water Mill

 

"Normal people … believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. ______ believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet."

Build Ancient Walls

Medieval Era

"Strategy requires thought; _____ require observation."

Kill a unit with a Spearman

 

"Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out."

Build a Classical Era or later Wonder

 

"We are all ________ in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."

Build 3 Mines

 

Few inventions have been so simple as the ______, but few have had so catalytic an influence on history."

Have the Feudalism civic

 

"I'd imagine the whole world as one big ______. ________ never come with any spare parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need."

Own 3 Archers

 

"The purpose of _______ is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

Earn a Great Scientist

 

"Blast - Build - Battle"

Build an Aqueduct

 

"Rocks in my path? I keep them all. With them I shall build my _____."

Have a government with 6 policy slots

Renaissance Era

"Not all who wander are lost."

Build 2 Harbors

 

"People can have the Model T in any color - so long as it's black."

Build a Lumber Mill

 

"If you owe the ____ $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the _____'s problem."

Have the Guilds civic

 

The real use of ________ is to make all men tall."

Build an Armory

 

"The pen might not be mightier than the sword, but maybe the ______ press is heavier than the siege weapon. Just a few words can change everything."

Build 2 Universities

 

"It's not the towering sails, but the unseen wind that moves a ship."

Kill a unit with a Musketman

 

"________ compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."

Build a University next to a Mountain

 

"Don't judge someone until you've stood at his forge and worked with his hammer."

Own 2 Crossbowmen

 

"The lowest is to attack a city. ____ of a city is only done as a last resort."

Own 2 Trebuchets

Industrial Era

The key words of violent economics are urbanisation, ___________, centralisation, efficiency, quantity, speed."

Build 3 Workshops

 

"If facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."

Have The Enlightenment civic

 

"Let’s get on our knees and pray. I don’t know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ______ yet?"

Have 2 Forts in your territory

 

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."

Kill a unit with a Knight

 

"It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the _____ _____."

Build 2 Shipyards

 

"No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the ______ revolution triggered by the invention of the toilet."

Build 2 Neighbourhoods

 

"You and I come by road or rail, but ______ travel on infrastructure."

Build 2 Banks

 

"Bolt actions speak louder than words."

Build a Niter Mine

Modern Era

"For once you have tasted ____ you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return."

Build an Industrial era or later wonder

 

"Many of us take better care of our automobiles than we do of our own bodies … yet the auto has _______ _____."

Own 3 Line Infantries

 

"There are three things extremely hard: ____, a diamond, and to know one's self."

Build a Coal Mine and an Ironclad

 

"Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man."

Build 1 Coal Power Plant

 

"If it weren't for ______, we'd all be watching television by candlelight."

Own 3 Privateers

 

"A world without ____ is a deaf world."

Build a National Park

 

"________ is the dirty part of physics."

Have a level two Alliance.

 

The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas _______ engine."

Extract an Artifact

Atomic Era

If God had really intended men to fly, He'd make it easier to get to the airport."

Build 2 Biplanes

 

"_____ science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty."

Boost through Great Scientist or Spy

 

"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star."

Build 2 Power Plants

 

"Better to fight for something than live for nothing."

Have 3 Armies or Armadas

 

"Nothing on this earth lasts forever. Except maybe _____."

Build an Oil Well

 

"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a ________."

Adopt a government with 8 inherent policy slots

 

"Leave the atom alone."

Boost through Great Scientist or Spy

 

"There may be no forgiveness for polyester. On this one matter, Satan and the Lord are in agreement."

Build 2 Aerodromes

Information Era

"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."

Boost through Great Scientist or Spy

 

"Right now there are thirty-one ______s zipping around the world with nothing better to do than help you find your way to the grocery store."

Build 2 Broadcast Centers

 

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you were heading."

Kill a Fighter

 

When God said, ‘Let there be light,’ he surely must have meant perfectly coherent light."

Build 2 Drones

 

"All material things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid particles... variously associated with the first Creation by the counsel of an Intelligent Agent."

Own 3 Tanks

 

"In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth."

Boost through Great Scientist or Spy

 

"I'll be back."

Have the Globalization civic

 

"I am a big proponent of harnessing the power of _____- from 93 million miles away. _____ is done by our sun really, really well and for free. Here on Earth in reactors, not so much."

Boost through Great Scientist or Spy

 

"If technology is the engine of change, then ____________ is the fuel for humanity's future."

Build an Aluminum Mine

Future Era

"Will no entreaties cause thee to turn a favourable eye upon thy creature, who implores thy goodness and compassion?"

N/A

 

"The incomplete becomes complete; the crooked becomes straight; the empty becomes full; the worn out becomes new."

 

 

"If there is any work in the afterlife, you must do it. Behold me whenever you are called. Be watchful at any moment to work there. Plough my fields, carry water and sand to the east and west. Behold me whenever you are called."

 

 

"After eleven Days Passage in this violent Flight, I perceived we began to approach another Earth (if I may so call it) being the Globe or very Body of that Star which we call the Moon."

 

 

"If the enemy know not where he will be attacked, he must prepare in every quarter, and so be everywhere weak."

 

 

"I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;"

 

 

"It ascends from the earth to the heaven, and it again descends to the earth and receives the force of things superior and inferior."

 

 

"Even though the _____ seems far away, it is actually beginning right now."