Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have…

Sentences in which I have tried for a certain light tone -- many of those have to do with events, upheavals, destructions that caused…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

This is a catastrophic universe, always; and subject to hidden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never anything but the song of substance under…

— Doris Lessing

The real cause of the great upheavals which precede changes of civilisations, such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of…

— Gustave Le Bon

Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic upheavals visited…

— Stefan Zweig

Here they are, all in one place. Circle back to them when you need some poetic shine. It is not revolutions and upheavals that…

— Boris Pasternak

“As the historian Edward Grant explained, 'It is indisputable that modern science emerged in the seventeenth century in Western Europe and nowhere else'. ...…

— Rodney Stark

There are many of us thinking of one version of parallel universe theory or another. If it's all a lot of nonsense, then it's…

— Brian Greene

I was going through a lot of upheavals in my brain. The only way I could really get stuff out was to write songs.

— Kim Shattuck

The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of the great…

— Georges Cuvier

History suggests that economic upheavals such as the Industrial and Information Revolutions eventually play themselves out and leave the entire world better off.

— Max Boot

Great upheavals produce shock waves that widen cracks in political, economic, and security orders. Sometimes the old orders break. Yet it can be in…

— Robert Zoellick

“Three years of changes, moves, uncertainties, upheavals; the war, the revolution; scenes of destruction, scenes of death, shelling, blown-up bridges, fires, ruins—all this turned…

— Boris Pasternak

Perhaps, when we examine the causes of many social changes and political upheavals, we will find the marks of its presence and its principal…

— Anonymous

“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing…

— Aristophanes

I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their…

— Dylan Thomas