Age Quote by Bill Bryson

“Less than a decade after the Great Exhibition, iron as a structural material was finished—which makes it slightly odd that the most iconic structure…

— Bill Bryson

Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel Tower] is…

— Gustave Eiffel

“Étant la plus saisissante manifestation de l'art des constructions métalliques par lesquelles nos ingénieurs se sont illustrés en Europe, elle est une des formes…

— Gustave Eiffel

“The Tower is not a sacred monument, and no taboo can forbid a commonplace life to develop there, but there can be no question,…

— Roland Barthes

Every time I look at the Eiffel Tower, it completely blows my mind.

— Brian Fallon

I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo used in his studies.

— Leon M. Lederman

“As if that was how they built the Colosseum and the pyramids of Giza. Christ, they’d managed to build the Eiffel Tower in 1889,…

— Fredrik Backman

There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art ... The tower will…

— Gustave Eiffel

It seems to me that it had no other rationale than to show that we are not simply the country of entertainers, but also…

— Gustave Eiffel

Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the exhibition.…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Right after 9/11 it looked as if the idea of a huge skyscraper might be considered obsolete. It came back, but I think that's…

— Paul Goldberger

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.

— Kevin McCloud