Modern Quotes

3241 Modern quotes by 2096 unique authors

If even one new drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company's back shelf because of exceedingly stringent… — Unknown Author
Unanimity of opinion may be fitting for a church, for the frightened or greedy victims of some (ancient, or modern) myth, or for the weak… — Paul Feyerabend
What the founders of modern science, among them Galileo, had to do, was not to criticize and to combat certain faulty theories, and to correct… — Unknown Author
This is an age of science. ... All important fields of activity from the breeding of bees to the administration of an empire, call for… — Unknown Author
We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions. The complexity and… — Andrei Sakharov
The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma. — Jean Danielou
Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth, I mean a… — D. M. Thomas
Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia without being aware… — Ernest Nagel
If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a little more time… — Unknown Author
The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism. — J. Michael Bishop
True optimization is the revolutionary contribution of modern research to decision processes. — George Dantzig
From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those who have political… — Charles Edward Merriam
Inside the glittery, swanky cases-the 'modern art' materials that were all the rage at the time, Formica and glass and plastic-was something very unpleasant, very… — Unknown Author
Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept. — Unknown Author
The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility! — Oscar Wilde
There is no question that Francis was in advance of his age, as he anticipated all that is liberal and sympathetic in modern times: the… — Henryk Skolimowski
Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a… — Alan Feduccia
Like taxes, radioactivity has long been with us and in increasing amounts; it is not to be hated and feared, but accepted and controlled. Radiation… — Unknown Author
...it is time [for Islam] to assume, along with all of the great cultural traditions, the modern risks of scientific knowledge. — Mohammed Arkoun
Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that… — Bertrand Russell
Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of our modern business and academic… — Hugh Nibley
Traditional people of Indian nations have interpreted the two roads that face the light-skinned race as the road to technology and the road to spirituality.… — William Commanda
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving… — Harold Rosenberg
In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us… — Susan Sontag

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