Century Quote by Alasdair MacIntyre Download Open image “Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.” — Alasdair MacIntyre ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Century Facts Gentleman Innovation Invention Telescopes Wigs
This Excellent Mathematician having given us, in the Transactions of February last, an account of the cause, which induced him to think upon Reflecting Telescopes, instead of Refracting ones, hath thereupon presented the curious world with an Essay of what may be performed by such Telescopes; by which it is found, that Telescopical Tubes may be considerably shortened without prejudice… — Isaac Newton Copy Share
“On why 300 years separates the first use of glass lenses in spectacles and their use in a telescope: “In many cases there are… — James Burke Copy Share Image
One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden people across… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig… — Clyde Tombaugh Copy Share Image
The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies. — Wilbur Wright Copy Share Image
“But what can be learned from trivia? A history of inventions reveals we made the gun silencer (1908) before air conditioning (1911), the kaleidoscope… — Dominic Smith Copy Share Image
The bureaucratic manager, the consuming aesthete, the therapist, the protester and their numerous kindred occupy almost all the available culturally recognizable roles, the notions… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“the characterization of actions allegedly prior to any narrative form being imposed upon them will always turn out to be the presentation of what… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“Indeed, one of the functions of the structures of normality is that by making it unnecessary for almost everybody almost all the time to… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
The good life for man is the life spent in seeking for the good life for man, and the virtues necessary for the seeking… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the same fish… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere. — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“The true genre of the life is neither hagiography nor saga, but tragedy.” — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
What our laws show is the extent and degree to which conflict has to be suppressed. — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“unless there is a telos which transcends the limited goods of practices by constituting the good of a whole human life, the good of… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is… — Phil Zimmermann Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
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