Century Quote by Anonymous

I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application of scientific…

— Thomas Huxley

Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led…

— Fritjof Capra

The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed,…

— Lewis Thomas

“Those whose acquaintance with scientific research is derived chiefly from its practical results easily develop a completely false notion of the mentality of the…

— Dean Radin

It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved "that the subject was in the air," or "that men's minds were…

— Charles Darwin

When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.

— William Osler

The twentieth century may well find historical status as the epoch in which man began to study himself as a scientific phenomenon.

— Timothy Leary

It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological…

— Michael Behe

“It was civilization itself which inflicted this wound upon modern man. Once the increase of empirical knowledge, and more exact modes of thought, made…

— Friedrich von Schiller

Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

— Jean Rostand

Without any extraordinary effort of genius, I have discovered that nature was the same three thousand years ago as at present; that men were…

— Lord Chesterfield