The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish… — Daniel Nathans Copy Share Image
Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Pick up any history book, and I suggest you begin with studying the 20th century, and you will find that a large… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My main professional interest during the 1970s has been in the dramatic change of concepts and ideas that has occurred in physics… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
I'm far from believing that we've solved the problem of violence in the 20th century and that's why I'm not discouraged that… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
The transition to a low-carbon economy will be one of the defining issues of the 21st century. This plan sets out a… — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image
Earlier in this century, the Heisenberg Principle established that the very act of observing a natural phenomenon can change what is being… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
For seventeenth-century astronomers, the Epicurean doctrine of multiple worlds separated by void space was seen to fit with the new Copernican system… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though… — Rafael Correa Copy Share Image
Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Female empowerment really is important to me. I'm a big nerd of the books from the 15th Century and 16th Century, when… — Ariel Winter Copy Share Image
The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution. — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books… — Richard Ernst Copy Share Image
Specifically, the part where in the early 19th century America reconstituted the U.S. Marine Corps to battle the Islamic Barbary Pirates, though… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A person's shadow stood for his legacy, his impact on the world. Some people cast hardly any shadow at all. Some cast… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead… — Harris L Coulter Copy Share Image
Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Thanks to Reagan, the insane now walk among us babbling about Starbucks and sodomite semen in this zombie apocalypse we call the… — St. Sukie de la Croix Copy Share Image
The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
