The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt. — Henry George Copy Share Image
We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago. — Ken Jennings Copy Share Image
Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up… — Bernice Fitz-Gibbon Copy Share Image
We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Why? Because the ethic of rehabilitation, established almost a century ago, lives on.” — Beth Linker Copy Share Image
The FTC was actually created more than a century ago, in the era of the robber barons and the industrial trust and… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
“A century ago she might have been beautiful, her face reflected in the river instead of a mirror. But all the years… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
A century ago the Spanish flu confounded scientists and devastated whole regions, but while today's society has air travel and an enormous,… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
“Mankind was on the moon in the 1960s, Jon. That was half a century ago. Nuclear power. The transistor. The laser. All… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When the audience begins to see the sunrise on that it's hard for them to turn away from it because they're listening… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through… — Mike Ferguson Copy Share Image
If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our… — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
Contemporary philosophers are facing problems that were unthinkable only one century ago, such as whether space and time are mutually Independent, whether… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of the day. — John Bracken Copy Share Image
A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago. — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
“But I did get to see the sunrise from 36,000 feet above the ground, and it occurred to me that until a… — John Green Copy Share Image
Our modern conception of the universe is so foreign to what even scientists generally believed a mere century ago that it is… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Today the major reason for our interest in Flatland is that for the first time we can achieve some of the dreams… — Thomas Banchoff Copy Share Image
