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- The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape.…
- We used to think that energy and water would be the critical issues for the next century. Now we think water will be the critical…
- Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat analogous to that…
- I, like almost all chemists I know, was also attracted by the smells and bangs that endowed chemistry with that slight but charismatic element of…
- If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game.... In a world haunted by…
- ...for two centuries supporters of the Electoral College have built their arguments on a series of faulty premises. The Electoral College is a gross violation…
- The Internet is the crime scene of the 21st Century.
- What has been done is little-scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge…
- The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power…
- Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this purpose [scattering experiments].…
- The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the scientific…
- The common belief that... the actual relations between religion and science over the last few centuries have been marked by deep and enduring hostility... is…
- Science is our century's art.
- During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs, if…
- The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.
- No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest…
- Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only folk art of the twentieth century.
- There is no strong evidence to prove significant human influence on climate on a global basis. The global cooling trend from 1940 to 1970 is…
- The journey to a different future must begin by defining the problem differently than we have done until now. . The task is not to…
- To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.
- Sustainability is about profit...it is the opportunity of the century
- The word crap is actually another word that's very, very old. It was taken over from 17th century England by the pilgrim fathers and Americans…
- The book recounts stories from my half-century of experience in the world of architecture and my journey of discovery of the importance of considering humans…
- The life story of the five main characters and the secondary characters around them allows Jonathan Franzen to present the full impetus and extent of…
- In the eighties and nineties, the innovation agenda was exclusively focused on enterprises. There was a time in which economic and social issues were seen as…
More Century Quotes
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did. — Neil Armstrong
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov
- When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched… — Chinua Achebe
- When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. — Chinua Achebe
- Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. — Margaret Atwood
- You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma… — Margaret Atwood
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus… — Lord Acton
- As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs… — Cleveland Abbe
- Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker