Modern Quotes · Page 28

There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot…

— Bertrand Russell

Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas

— Milan Kundera

Modern genetic engineering makes producing GMO food products relatively easy. GMOs can improve crop yield and greatly enhance the nutritional value of…

— Richard J. Roberts

Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it.

— Mike Curran

The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror.

— Theodor Haecker

... for the modern soul, for which it is mere child's play to bridge oceans and continents, there is nothing so impossible…

— Robert Musil

I don't understand what modern clothes are about at all.

— Julie Harris

Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.

— Vaclav Havel

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful…

— Richard Le Gallienne

The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.

— Edward Ruscha

Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.

— Ivars Peterson

I think the big thing is the fairy tale. It's taking old folk fairy tales and retelling them in modern day. I…

— Lily Collins

A wider of more altruistic attitude is very relevant in today's world. If we look at the situation from various angles, such…

— Dalai Lama

It is because of his brain that [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.

— Will Cuppy

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.

— Evelyn Waugh

Dawn itself is the most neglected masterpiece of the modern world.

— R. Murray Schafer

Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly…

— Norman Lamm

Drag is literally so ancient that it predates modern understanding of gender, of transness, of queerness. Drag predates modern ideas of gender,…

— Sasha Velour

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

— Oscar Wilde

The United States has more people living in poverty than at almost any time in the modern history of our country. I…

— Bernie Sanders

Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.

— Anonymous

Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here that does not know that the seed of…

— Woodrow Wilson

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.

— Susan Sontag

I have a few friends that have inspired me since I was a young kid. When I watch old films or modern…

— Theophilus London

We are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection, we are…

— David Eagleman