I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances. — William James Copy Share Image
A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a… — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But… — Abraham Robinson Copy Share Image
“I fell in love. It felt exactly like a fall, a head-over-heels tumble into a state of unbearable lightness. The earth tilted… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress… — Allen Newell Copy Share Image
Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Whether or not people go into space or serve the space industry, they will have the sensitivity to those fields necessary to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
This is football from the 19th century. It's very difficult to play a football match when only one team wants to play.… — Jose Mourinho Copy Share Image
Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies?… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
Well, the first thing I had to do was to read a lot. First of all, about education... and looking at education… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying principle of our… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
If the 19th [century] was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the "collective" century,… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
For the greater a man's works for the future, the less the present can comprehend them; the harder his fight, and the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property,… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The majority of people who come to America come for a better life, just like the Italians, the Jews, the Irish, and… — Marty Walsh Copy Share Image
A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The black man will inherit the earth; he will resume control, taking back the position he held centuries ago when the white… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages. It's still in the fifteenth… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We thought [with Alix MacKenzie], if those are the kinds of pots from every culture that interest us, why would we think… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image