[Heisenberg's seminal 1925 paper initiating quantum mechanics marked] one of the great jumps—perhaps the greatest—in the development of twentieth century physics. — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The humanities and science are not in inherent conflict but have become separated in the twentieth century. Now their essential unity must… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Some people harbor the idea or belief that all teachers should teach for free. Obviously these people have never been teachers, particularly… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Such ideas made him [Constable] a precursor of the essentially twentieth-century view that art and life are inseparable and there is no… — Neville Weston Copy Share Image
Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number… — Michael Arlen Copy Share Image
No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial… — Alice Corbin Henderson Copy Share Image
“The twentieth century has built up a powerful set of intellectual shortcuts and devices that help us defend ourselves against moments when… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
Writers in the nineteenth century - people like George Eliot and Flaubert - were accustomed to addressing particular communities with which they… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Back in the twentieth century, we thought that robots would have taken over by this time, and, in a way, they have.… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
In the early period of Left struggles, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, there were many different trajectories for the… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We've come a long way since 'Beowulf.' In the twentieth century, a strain in children's and YA literature offered the humorously conceived… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
The use of the word royalty, as fee to a proprietor for the exploitation of a work or property, derives from the… — Elgin Groseclose Copy Share Image
It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
In this twentieth century, to stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and come back… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
“It nevertheless remains true that, in most countries for which long-run data are available, stocks have out-performed bonds – by a factor… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We have faith that future generations will know that here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is easy to be mindless in America, because dreaming of and living for a better tomorrow is the American way. ...… — Barbara De Angelis Copy Share Image
If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A woman was the property of her father or her husband and that remained true right into the twentieth century. It wasn't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In the twentieth century we have almost doubled life expectancy from forty to seventy, so in the twenty-first century we should at… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal… — Lionel Barrymore Copy Share Image
Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
“At the dawn of the twentieth century, it was already clear that, chemically speaking, you and I are not much different from… — Philip Nelson Copy Share Image
THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh… — Dambudzo Marechera Copy Share Image
As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
By the end of the Twentieth Century, taxation will be reduced to a minimum, the entire world will be open to trade,… — Erastus Wiman Copy Share Image
Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century the number of people killed by their own governments under authoritarian regimes is four times the number killed… — John Shattuck Copy Share Image
The hold of the evolutionary paradigm is so powerful that an idea which is more like a principle of medieval astrology than… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
“If political scientists couldn’t predict the downfall of the Soviet Union—perhaps the most important event in the latter half of the twentieth… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image