Best 20th Century Qoutes

287 20th Century quotes by 251 unique authors

• It is for Muslim scholars to study the whole history of Islamic science completely and not only the chapters and periods which influenced Western science.… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr
• Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz, bluegrass and country… — Wynton Marsalis
• Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America. — Ken Burns
• But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in… — Edward Witten
• The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance. The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth… — Alex Carey
• What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century. — Bertrand Piccard
• If you look at the history of how information flows, there was a time that newspapers were kind of in the place that Google and… — Eli Pariser
• The rate of technological and human physiological change in the 20th century has been remarkable. Beyond that, a synergy between the improved technology and physiology… — Robert Fogel
• As a form of escapism, yearning for the 20th century is understandable, but in practice it would be horrible - sort of like going on… — Douglas Coupland
• The best experience that we have on Earth is the fact that we have scientific stations, weathering over stations down in the Antarctic for almost… — Edgar Mitchell
• Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day… — Adam Davidson
• I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren. — Twyla Tharp
• I believe that a hundred years from now, when people look back at the 20th century, they will look at Miles, Bird, Clifford Brown, Ella… — Quincy Jones
• The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill photography because everyone… — David Bailey
• The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution. — Britt Daniel
• Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality... Buildings were judged -… — Christopher Alexander
• The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb. — P.J. O'Rourke
• Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000… — Sylvia Earle
• I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century. — Michael Bennet
• The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that rivals the visual… — Daryl Hall
• In the 19th century, when Muslims were looking at Europe as an example, they were independent; they were more self-confident. In the early 20th century,… — Mustafa Akyol
• Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century. — Carl Honore
• Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance… — Noam Chomsky
• In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very… — David Gerrold
• An economically confident America has - since becoming a world power at the start of the 20th century - tended toward global engagement. It is… — Thomas P.M. Barnett

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251 authors contributed a total of 287 20th Century Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 8 20th Century Quotes by Unknown Author
• 4 20th Century Quotes by Stephen Ambrose
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• 4 20th Century Quotes by George W. Bush
• 3 20th Century Quotes by Sylvia Earle
• 3 20th Century Quotes by Penn Jillette
• 2 20th Century Quotes by Warren Buffett
• 2 20th Century Quotes by Stephen Kinzer
• 2 20th Century Quotes by Ronald Reagan
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• 2 20th Century Quotes by Peter Drucker
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• 2 20th Century Quotes by Michael Beschloss
• 2 20th Century Quotes by Ken Burns
• 2 20th Century Quotes by Jon Porter
• 2 20th Century Quotes by Jon Krakauer
• 2 20th Century Quotes by John Keegan
• 2 20th Century Quotes by Edward Witten
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• 2 20th Century Quotes by Barack Obama
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