The Copernican revolution was actually a contribution to the life of the church, the development of our view of ourselves in terms… — George Coyne Copy Share Image
I still prefer to hear [Bob] Dylan acoustic, some of his electric songs are absolutely great. Electric music is the vernacular of… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Each period of a civilisation creates an art that is specific in it and which we will never see reborn. To try… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century. — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
...for two centuries supporters of the Electoral College have built their arguments on a series of faulty premises. The Electoral College is… — George C. Edwards III Copy Share Image
The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We were terribly excited, and I think we took it on our shoulders that we were creating the 21st century in 1971.… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
I don’t mind the disapproving ones so much. It’s the tolerant ones I can’t stand, the ones who smile at Rose, who… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came… — Gary Locke Copy Share Image
I believe it is important that we Japanese write a constitution for ourselves that would reflect the shape of the country we… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon… — Ken Auletta Copy Share Image
Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is doubtful that the dissection of living animals and plants could be done by those who believe them to be holy.… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it… — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image