The nineteenth century believed in science but the…

There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.

— Harold E. Varmus

The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed,…

— Lewis Thomas

If I drive my car to the store, those carbon molecules that are emitted actually get into the atmosphere circulation systems and affect climate…

— Dale Jamieson

That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof.

— Richard Dedekind

“SCIENCE AROSE ONLY IN Europe because only medieval Europeans believed that science was possible and desirable. And the basis of their belief was their…

— Rodney Stark

The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth century and…

— Alister E. McGrath

The use of the word royalty, as fee to a proprietor for the exploitation of a work or property, derives from the period when…

— Elgin Groseclose

In the eighteenth century it was often convenient to regard man as a clockwork automaton. In the nineteenth century, with Newtonian physics pretty well…

— Thomas Pynchon

I don't know how it could be more stark or clear: this entire society is being dominated by corporate power in a way that…

— Russ Feingold

Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century…

— Benito Mussolini

It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift was made…

— Rodney Clapp

'In the nineteenth century, we beat the British more than once,' Afghans often told me. 'In the twentieth century, we beat the Russians. In…

— William T. Vollmann

Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.

— Jill Lepore

“All the glorified technological achievements of Progress, including the conquest of outer space, do not redeem the Twentieth century's moral poverty which no one…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Writers in the nineteenth century - people like George Eliot and Flaubert - were accustomed to addressing particular communities with which they shared not…

— Pankaj Mishra