Generations Quotes

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It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and the rest will… — Ayn Rand
The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing… — Arthur C. Clarke
We may discover resources on the moon or Mars that will boggle the imagination, that will test our limits to dream. And the fascination generated… — George W. Bush
We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat… — Barack Obama
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's… — Adam Sedgwick
Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that the increase of… — Charles Babbage
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation. — Edwin Powell Hubble
The generation of seeds ... is therefore marvelous and analogous to the other productions of living things. For first of all an umbilicus appears. ...… — Marcello Malpighi
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men… — Jean Piaget
How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for… — Seneca the Younger
Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can… — Bertrand Russell
I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education,… — Thomas Jefferson
As a result of Title IX, and a new generation of parents who want their daughters to have the opportunities they never had, women's sports… — Sheryl Swoopes
Any judgment is past oriented, and existence is always herenow, life is always herenow. All judgments are coming from your past experiences, your education, your… — Rajneesh
As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore part of our… — Dalai Lama
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and… — Lyndon B. Johnson
A few years make such havoc in human generations that we soon see ourselves deprived of those with whom we entered the world, and whom… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Generations of women have sacrificed their lives to become their mothers. But we do not have that luxury any more. The world has changed too… — Erica Jong
I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are… — A. S. Byatt
We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop our eating from… — Jonathan Safran Foer

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