His Contemporaries Quotes
20 His Contemporaries quotes by 20 unique authors
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For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side,…
— Alan Valentine
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The man of true genius never lives before his time, he never undertakes impossibilities, and always embarks on his enterprise at the suitable place and…
— Joseph Henry
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The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries. But they are…
— Fritz Haber
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In trying to evaluate Hopkins' unique contribution to biochemistry it may perhaps be said that he alone amongst his contemporaries succeeded in formulating the subject.…
— Marjory Stephenson
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By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion
— Garry Kasparov
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Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though it may seem…
— John Blacking
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The key to seeing why there should be a Eucharistic worship distinct from the Mass is that the Eucharist is Jesus Christ. No less than…
— Pope Pius XII
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The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next twenty-five or fifty…
— Milton Friedman
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He who finds a new path is a pathfinder, even if the trail has to be found again by others; and he who walks far…
— Ibn Khaldun
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No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who…
— Gertrude Stein
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Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the…
— Carl Jung
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Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense.
— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
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What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been…
— C.S. Lewis
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A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
— Thomas Mann
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History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water…
— Benjamin Franklin
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There is no vice, of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excited so much indignation among his contemporaries,…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Every religious pioneer, including Jesus Christ, was persecuted by his contemporaries. But once people understand me, their turn can be dramatic like Saint Paul's.
— Sun Myung Moon
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