Modern low temperature physics began with the liquefaction of helium by Kamerlingh Onnes and the discovery of superconductivity at the University of… — David Lee Copy Share Image
I don't think any other city actually has anyone who has actually documented the way they have lived or documented the city… — Richard Press Copy Share Image
For me, going back to itinerant landscape painting, it's not about returning to an older method, but about building on what happened… — Cynthia Daignault Copy Share Image
There was engrained poetry and then when you look back at our history and in the 20th century, the last century, probably… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
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The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
It was a different social structure. I'd go to [David] Bailey's for dinner at 10:30. There were always girls there and a… — Manolo Blahnik Copy Share Image
Practices such as arranged marriages and restrictions on girls attending school have deep roots, and changing them is a gradual process. Sometimes… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
All the major social movements of the 20th century had great soundtracks - We need that. The left needs better propaganda, because… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st. — David S. Rose Copy Share Image
The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last… — Nils-Axel Morner Copy Share Image
I was interested in Armstrong to begin with because he is the most important figure in Jazz in the 20th Century. There's… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Franklin Roosevelt ran on a balanced budget in 1932, and the greatest president, certainly, of the 20th century. So the idea that… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
By the 20th century, war ceased to be an encounter between two armies. It became an encounter between two societies, because a… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image