Modern Quotes

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The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction. — Oscar Wilde
Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers. — Nicholas Eberstadt
The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than anything… — John von Neumann
The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right… — George Bernard Shaw
A sport, a struggle for results and a fight for prizes. I think that the discussion about "chess is science or chess is art" is… — Alexander Morozevich
In a bygone era, penalty-takers would put their laces through the ball and threaten to put a permanent bulge in the netting. For reasons that… — Pete Gill
Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience… — Susan Sontag
The fact that people can forget these simple truths when intellectualizing about children shows how far modern doctrines have taken us. They make it easy… — Steven Pinker
It is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the principle inherent in… — Richard Reti
The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable… — Edward Abbey
With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail rather than in… — Peter Singer
Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present. — Loren Eiseley
Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who has… — Aldo Leopold
Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and… — Sigurd F. Olson
The modern university does not exist to teach alone...It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a product and an ornament...The university… — Nicholas Murray Butler
The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills… — Eric Rucker Eddison
The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know. — William Ralph Inge
Contemporary political theorists continue this type of thinking about democracy by arguing that the development of "public judgment" among regular citizens should be made the… — Kevin Mattson
It is not a zero sum game. The simple idea of the gains from trade lies at the heart of the modern and the ancient… — Matt Ridley
Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world. — E F Schumacher
Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding the… — Unknown Author
In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into… — Ronald Coase
The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market economy. It failed… — Tony Blair
Men who cannot exploit the co-operative benefits derived from institutions in modern knowledge economies are discriminated against by girls and so have fewer children — Unknown Author

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