Few Centuries Quotes
16 quotes by 15 authors
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The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently, smallpox. I am…
— Luis Walter Alvarez
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The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a cell will solve…
— Andre Michel Lwoff
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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…
— Colin Archibald Russell
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Don't let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in a few centuries,…
— Paulo Coelho
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...trying to predict whether global warming will moderate the next ice age is not only impossible but irrelevant. It doesn't help us get through the…
— John Harte
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The reason the very concept of God has become at once so impoverished, so thoroughly mythical, and ultimately so incredible for so many modern persons…
— David Bentley Hart
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That Britain today is a liberal society is largely because of the philosophy and outlook of the Anglican Church, which did so much to shape…
— Robert Winston
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Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those…
— John Muir
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Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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That which doesn’t kill us just requires a few centuries of therapy. (Caleb) Yeah, and usually a lot of Tylenol. (Nick)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe…
— Carl Sagan
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We open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear—and really just in the last few…
— David Eagleman
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Gwen smiled. "Hardly. Bedraggled is being in the full throes of nicotine withdrawal, and after a week on a bus with a group of senior…
— Karen Marie Moning
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If Sara had been a boy and lived a few centuries ago, her father used to say, 'she would have gone about the country with…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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The White Mansion isn't boring, lass. Never boring. It's the grand demesne the Unseelie King built for his concubine. It's a living, breathing love story,…
— Karen Marie Moning
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For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
— Cameron Russell
Who Wrote These Few Centuries Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 16 Few Centuries Quotes as follows: