Fifty Quote by Albert Einstein

“in the best sense of the word—as if, for a hundred years, people had”

— Neil Gaiman

“Ordinary-size people, they don't know: their lives have been rehearsed and rehearsed by every single person who ever lived before them, inventions and improvements…

— Elizabeth McCracken

In a hundred years, no one would know us, but this moment for us would last as long as we did.

— Julie Murphy

“We Americans seem to know everything about the last twenty-four hours but very little of the last sixty centuries or the last sixty years.”4”

— Neil Postman

“At only two points in human history had knowledge radically expanded on a global scale. Once during the Renaissance, which continued to the present,…

— Steve Berry

“In the future - 60-80 years from now, what would a historian of that time look back at as the one big thing that…

— Osama A. Hashmi

“Why must people always assume we moderns knew more than any of the previous cultures? It simply isn't true, evidence proves otherwise.”

— Kathleen Baldwin

“Dave would marvel, “Do people not realize that they are living in the greater Renaissance? Could you imagine how much Isaac Newton would have…

— David Flynn

Maybe the '50s and '60s were more awkward because everyone knew there were things under the surface, but no one talked about them.

— Lily Koppel

“we are in one of those great historical periods that occur every 200 or 300 years when people don’t understand the world anymore, and…

— Kim S. Cameron

Some people would like the world to go back to the 1950s.

— William M. Daley

All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the "fifties"…

— Lester Bangs