Modern political science started in the late nineteenth…

I wanted to write about the time when science became modern, around the 1950s. Right after physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, science started being so…

— Hanya Yanagihara

Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates.

— Clive Ponting

“In New England, prejudice against marking the birth of Jesus either in church or in the family lingered until the late nineteenth century: Christmas…

— Gerry Bowler

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

— James A. Michener

A lot of science started off as magic, where people were burned at the stake for doing science basically.

— Larry Wilmore

“The truth is that science started its modern career by taking over ideas derived from the weakest side of the philosophies of Aristotle's successors.…

— Alfred North Whitehead

In contemporary art culture, where good looks and clever strategic planning of art careers have become a feature, professional practice may be taught in…

— Michael Leunig

Game theory is a branch of, originally, applied mathematics, used mostly in economics and political science, a little bit in biology, that gives us…

— Colin Camerer

Modern political liberalism, particularly its racial orthodoxy, is the science of excuse-making, the training of black minds for failure.

— Jason Whitlock

What I really love is modern political history. I love the research process, whether it's digging through old newspaper stories, artifacts from election campaigns…

— Steve Kornacki

There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political institutions being…

— Swami Vivekananda

“There are few modern political variables more disruptive than a dedicated prosecutor”

— Michael Wolff

I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.

— Zephyr Teachout

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out…

— George Bernard Shaw

In modern political society it is probably a fact that national leadership can heighten foreign crises to the point where war becomes almost inevitable…

— Arthur Ekirch