Until the late modern era, more than 90 percent of humans…

“We heard about people who go back to their roots. That is good, but don't get stuck in the root. There is the branch,…

— Natalie Goldberg

If you think about the traditional mafia stories we grew up on, it is always about the death of criminal organisations - things like…

— James Watkins

Relativity was a highly technical new theory that gave new meanings to familiar concepts and even to the nature of the theory itself. The…

— David C. Cassidy

“Our modern era embodies both the Tower of Babel and Pentecost simultaneously. Like Babel, globalization and technological advancement have created linguistic and cultural fragmentation……

— Paule Patterson

There's room for many definitions of masculinity in the modern era.

— Kemp Muhl

Breaking Benjamin, talk about songwriting, I mean, some of the greatest songwriters of the modern era. And, obviously, it's a little heavier.

— Synyster Gates

Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.

— Jack McDevitt

“Cooking without remuneration" and "slaving over a hot stove" are activities separated mostly by a frame of mind. The distinction is crucial. Career women…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Thanks to our modern era, facts are incredibly easy to come by. A few web searches for your subject matter, and you have all…

— Andy Weir

The psychic plane is clouded over by emotions and thoughts and the general dullness and malaise that develops in our contemporary world through the…

— Frederick Lenz

“The way out of the trap was discovered only in the modern era, with the appearance of a new system based on trust in…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Music is all starting to sound alike in the modern era. Afro-pop sounds exactly like L.A. pop - there's no difference, no ambience, no…

— Ry Cooder

“What is love? Great minds have been grappling with this question through the ages, and in the modern era, they have come up with…

— Rob Sheffield

“Capitalism began as a theory about how the economy functions. It was both descriptive and prescriptive – it offered an account of how money…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The novel has accompanied man uninterruptedly and faithfully since the beginning of the Modern Era. It was then that the "passion to know," which…

— Milan Kundera