No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The element of heroic maleness had always been present in the concept of the artist as one who rides the winged horse… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
I think that life is incredibly violent and that individual people are incredibly violent on one level or another. I don't try… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Do you know anything about silent films?" "Sure," I said. "The first ones were developed in the late nineteenth century and sometimes… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
It [ non-Euclidean geometry ] would be ranked among the most famous achievements of the entire [nineteenth] century, but up to 1860… — Ivor Grattan-Guinness Copy Share Image
The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
[Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
It's strange that in an age when we pride ourselves on our independence of thought we meekly submit without further question to… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of… — William S. McFeely Copy Share Image
Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work. — Geoffrey Blainey Copy Share Image
Over a wide field of our economy it is still the better course to rely on the nineteenth century's "hidden hand" than… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
The golden age of equal rights in Spain was a myth, and belief in it was a result, more than a cause,… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
[About Francis Baily] The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
Current conflicts and guilt about being a woman who is a mother and a person in her own right are a socially… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong. — William Weld Copy Share Image